THE LICHEN PARTNERSHIP


The lichen partnership

 A lichen may resemble a single plant like an organism, but it is really a colony of large embedded in a matrix formed by the filaments of a fungus good examples of symbiosis this the partnership between algae and fungi benefits from the combination of two different methods of getting food for energy the algae in lichens make for energy the algae in lichens make food through photosynthesis while the fungus absorbs food and water from their environs.

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With both methods available to it a lichen can survive in challenging habits such as rocks or snow
There are at least 15000 varieties of lichens they provide a major food source for reindeer and caribou  and dietary supplementary and in dyes
Lichens called British soldiers and pixie cups survive in bleak settings because of a botanical partnership between algae and fungi.
The fungus is a member of the kingdom fungi a grouping of some 80000 organisms that range from single-celled yeasts to mushrooms and molds to large slabs of bracket fungus growing up the sides of trees many fungi live freely in soil or water and many more engage in parasitic or symbiotic relationship with plants and animals most species are composed of strands of cells called hyphae that combine to form a fungal body or mass known as a mycelium

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