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.
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.
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