Biology Illinois Edition (Glencoe Science)
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Author: Alton Biggs
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About hyphae found in fungi.

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Fungi are heterotrophs of a unicellular or multicellular eukaryotic that are decomposers. They are the world's largest and oldest species. Some characteristics in fungi that differentiate them from plants include their hyphae, cell walls, and cross-walls.

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Fungi are made of long cell chains. Hyphae tend to be threadlike filaments, without a microscope. Such filaments are the basic structural units that constitute a multicellular fungus' body and are called hyphae. Hyphae expand repeatedly at their tips and branch out to form a netlike mass called a mycelium. In many fungi, cross-walls called septa separate the hyphae into cells. The septa have large pores that allow the flow of nutrients, cytoplasm, organelles, and in some cases nuclei between cells.

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Therefore, it can be concluded that cross-walls, called septa, divide the hyphae into cells.

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