Radiation-loving fungi: the perfect space food?

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11917-radiationloving-fungi-the-perfect-space-food.html

It is mainly saying that a radioactive mushroom grows more and being edible in space it will help the space travelers on extended mission by them being able to have more food. It also explains what will happen if they added more melanin to one mushroom and left one mushroom alone to grow and just zapped them both with gamma rays. As expected the dark colored melanin filled one grew more. Arturo Casadeval thinks that fungi will be able to live in the worst conditions as long as their is radiation. The dark colored fungi uses the pigment that also makes our skin dark, melanin.

1) What type of lifestyle does the fungus in the article have? (Is it saprophytic, autotrophic, or parasitic?) What information lead you to this conclusion?

It is autotrophic and saprophytic. This lead me to these conclusions because if is absorbs radiation which is just another form of sunlight then it's autotrophic. It is saprophytic because it can still absorb dead materials and it loves moist dark places.

2) What benefits or problems can you foresee with this particular fungus?

It will become to radioactive and probably cause harm to the people trying to eat or touch it.

3) List three things you learned from this article in your own words.

I learned that there really is such a thing a a radioactive mushroom. I also learned that they could probably grow on just radiation. I also learned that it could help astronauts in outer space by them having extra food.

4) Infer what potential impact this fungus will have on the environment it grows in.

It probably will cause other things to become radioactive and may cause things to grow larger or die. People may become radioactive and dying might occur of the human race or not.

Symbiotic Fungus Does Not Depend On Fungus-farming Ants For Reproduction, Researchers Say

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060628095216.htm

Summary: Ants are using fungi to help survive. This is called a symbioctic realationship. The ants feed the fungus in return the fungus feeds them and the process go's on. And the fungi acts as a sort of protection and housing for the ants.



Fungi Article Questions:

1) What type of lifestyle does the fungus in the article have? (Is it saprophytic, autotrophic, or parasitic?) What information lead you to this conclusion? Decomposer
2) What benefits or problems can you foresee with this particular fungus? It is helping the ants survive
3) List three things you learned from this article in your own words. Fungi reproduce sexually and disperse widely without the aid of their ant farmers. Other animals use fungi as a partener. Fungi can be grown like a crop.
4) Infer what potential impact this fungus will have on the environment it grows in. It helps different types of animals survives.

Fungi Deployed in War on Knapweed

link: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/28/knapweed_pla_02.html?category=earth&guid=20061228093030

The Summary: the paragraph i read about fungi was talking mainly about how some fungi helps us . The fungi was helpful in ways like finding different medications and making many medications. A scientist thought that by finding things out about fungi some of the disease that were not a easy cured could be cured with fungi.The fungus typically exists in low concentrations, but when it's cultured in a lab and sprayed in higher concentrations, it has a deadly effect.some fungi flowers that were pink and purple had a toxic effect on the land of farmers also.


Fungi Article Questions:

1) What type of lifestyle does the fungus in the article have? (Is it saprophytic, autotrophic, or parasitic?) What information lead you to this conclusion? well I'll say parasitic because it is effect in land and other things in this article
2) What benefits or problems can you foresee with this particular fungus? it is creating toxins for the soil that means its effecting the food growth.
3) List three things you learned from this article in your own words. fungi can be helpful with medicines,it can be toxic,and it is a decomposes dead organisms.
4) Infer what potential impact this fungus will have on the environment it grows in. a bad impact, because in this article it was destroying things and it was a toxin so it wasn't really helpful to us.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041219154445.htm

Link:http://www.sciencedaily.com/search/?keyword=+fungi&topic=Plants+%26+Animals&sort=relevance

Summary: The article mainly talks about permanent resistance to antibiotics that help fungal infections. In controlling the fungus the antibiotic is not going to be very helpful anymore due to the resisting infection. It is best to try to avoid consumtion of these antibiotics without a thorough check.

Questions:
Fungi Article Questions:

1) What type of lifestyle does the fungus in the article have? (Is it saprophytic, autotrophic, or parasitic?) What information lead you to this conclusion? parasitic meaning it feeds on living things. This is true because the antibiotics are not helpful towards the human being infected by the infection.

2) What benefits or problems can you foresee with this particular fungus? Certain infections are going to get harder to prevent if the infections remains resistant.

3) List three things you learned from this article in your own words.
3a. That soon the infection will take a toll on the human being
3b. All antibiotics should now be thoroughly examined before being prescribed to a person
3c. The only way to avoid this problem, is to not take the antibiotic at all

4) Infer what potential impact this fungus will have on the environment it grows in. The fungus will eventually kill the person it is infecting

Human Cadaver Fungi Identified

Link: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/22/corpsefungi_hum.html?category=human&guid=20060522104802

Summary: This article is about fungi feeding off of two bodies. These bodies were found in two very different environments. One was lying on a concrete floor with yellow and white fungi. The other was a skeleton in clothes still hanging from a tree in a forest. And the yellow and white fungus was also growing on this corpses too. A scientist explained that the white and yellow coloration is associated with the sexual stages for Eurotium fungi.

Fungi Article Questions:

1) What type of lifestyle does the fungus in the article have? (Is it saprophytic, autotrophic, or parasitic?) What information lead you to this conclusion? It's saprophytic beacause it feeds off a dead material and it feeds off a dead corpses.
2) What benefits or problems can you foresee with this particular fungus? The smelling and rotting smell.....
3) List three things you learned from this article in your own words. 1. 2 bodies were found decomposing in two very different environments. 2. A yellow and white fungus was found on both corpses. 3. The fungus is called push up daisies.
4) Infer what potential impact this fungus will have on the environment it grows in. human corpses

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Radiation-eating' Fungi Finding Could Trigger Recalution of Earth's Energy Balance and Help Feed Astraunots

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070522210932.htm

Summary: This story was talking about how with fungi living off radiation that it could help do things that seem hard. Since these fungi eat radiation they help balance the earth's energy. Scientists found out that there are two types fungi that do this. One was induced to make melanin and the other naturally contains it. Last, melanin in fungi is no different to melanin in our skin.

Fungi Article Questions:
1) What type of lifestyle does the fungus in the article have? (Is it saprophytic, autotrophic, or parasitic?) What information lead you to this conclusion? saphrophytic, it does not use the sun for food or live in intestines of any living thing.
2) What benefits or problems can you foresee with this particular fungus? a benefit would be not having to worry about getting astranauts food and one problem would be radiation poisoning.
3) List three things you learned from this article in your own words. Fungi can eat radiation, these fungi are actually studied, and radiation used in fungi can actually be helpful.
4) Infer what potential impact this fungus will have on the environment it grows in? ending up having a radiation overflow which could hurt any living things near it.

News Flash: Men Go for Good Looks

Link:http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/04/dating_hum.html?category=human&guid=20070904104530&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000

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