Write the general characteristics of Kingdom Fungi.

(N/A) The general characteristics of Kingdom Fungi are as follows:
$1$. Habitat: They are cosmopolitan and occur in air,water,soil,and on animals and plants.
$2$. Nutrition: They are heterotrophic,absorbing organic matter from dead substrates (saprophytic),living plants/animals (parasitic),or living in symbiosis (e.g.,lichens,mycorrhiza).
$3$. Cell Wall: The cell wall is composed of chitin ($C_8H_{13}O_5N)_n$ and polysaccharides.
$4$. Body Organization: Except for unicellular yeasts,they are filamentous. Their bodies consist of long,slender thread-like structures called hyphae. $A$ network of hyphae is known as mycelium.
$5$. Reproduction: They reproduce by vegetative (fragmentation,fission,budding),asexual (spores like conidia,sporangiospores,zoospores),and sexual (oospores,ascospores,basidiospores) methods.