Fungi also cause serious infections in plants and animals.
Fungi typically have three modes of reproduction.
These thin-walled spores arise by cleavage of hyphae through splitting of the septa.
In this they produce and release a large amount of spores.
Asexual spores in many fungi are produced from the tips of specialized hyphae in a highly characteristic manner depending on individual species.
Fungi are of high medicinal, nutritive and environmental significance.