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