The bread molds are something you probably have a lot of familiarity with -- this video explores how they reproduce and get ALL OVER all of your bread.
Your enthusiasm on the subject makes it way more interesting to learn about, and I like how you used analogies to compare some of the new terms with words that we’re already familiar with! You cleared a lot of my confusion, thank you so much for the video. We really appreciate it :)
Heya Susan, I really appreciate that feedback! As a student myself, I find analogies can be really helpful especially with terms you have NEVER heard before. I'm glad it's been helpful -- enjoy!
I dont comment on here often but I really appreciate your videos so much. I'm dyslexic taking mycology online and I find it very hard to retain what I'm reading and your videos just pull it all together for me. You are very wonderful at teaching.
Your videos are great ! i am a production engineer by trade with some free time on my hands so i decided to start a mycology diploma and your videos really help on the visualisation aspect of learning . Reading often drowns my enthusiasm when trying to absorb new information . Thanks
Thank you for your clarity. The reproductive cycle always seems to complicated- this is clear and easy to understand. ( and I love that you brought Dora the Explorer into the conversation!)
Thank you so much Jade! Now to be open, there ARE more steps and side cycles and such but the cycle I review in here is the foundation. If you are taking a class, be sure to review your textbook and other course materials as your instructor may want more detail from you! Good luck!
Hi, Thanks for the fantastic explanations, you are such a great and engaging teacher. I take Soil Ecology and Ecology/Environmental Science with a particular interest in mycology, so these sorts of videos help quite a bit as there are no dedicated mycology courses at my University. One question you may be able to help with: a lot of information about fungi is either rather simple and straightforward (such as the life cycle, type of mycorrhizal association, Taxonomical classifications, fungal respiration), or incredibly complex (of which I can't describe as its well beyond me, but talking about particular amino acids etc etc). Once you reach a level of understanding that goes beyond the introduction to fungi, what would you recommend the next steps are? I have access to an enormous library of journals and many libraries at my University/city, so it's likely I'll be able to access whatever resources you may suggest. Hopefully you can help me out better than my botany lecturers (not that they aren't helpful!)
Oh thank you! And great question -- you're right that there is a great dichotomy between simple introduction to super complex. My recommendation for the in-between would be a textbook. I personally only use free textbooks, which may not be as in depth, see OpenStax (openstax.org/books/biology-2e/pages/24-introduction). I'm sure fungi textbooks exist, and would be your best bet. Scientific journals will get very technical, very quickly. While they are definitely interesting, may not be the in-between you are looking for.
@@ProfessorNewtoff thanks for the quick response. I'll take a look at textbooks; the openstax one looks great, so hoping to order a copy to have a hard copy (reading from a screen sucks sometimes). Hope to see you continue to make videos on fungal biology and ecological function
Wow so brilliant. Mycology is essential to learning to decompose the waste or wise sapiens have made. Love it. Can't wait to understand and indulge in your other videos.
Dear Professor, I beg you, please, explain what the Meiosis is, since it's a good try to explain the events, but it's not clear what does n or 2n mean! I'm a medical doctor and as fas as I remember in some point of Meiosis there is a tetraploid genom - after Interface before Profase 1.
I wish I had a video where I could link you to! So I'll try to leave a brief comment. Meiosis is when you go from a diploid cell to a haploid cell. A diploid cell is a cell that has two sets of chromosomes, and is denoted 2n. For example, human skin cells, brain cells, and muscle cells have two copies of our 23 chromosomes (so 46 total, one copy is from mom, and one copy is from dad). In MITOSIS, cells are simply replicating. So a 2n cell will create two 2n cells. In MEIOSIS, the number of chromosomes is halved, for example going from 2n to n. In humans, we do this process in our ovaries and testes to create eggs and sperm, respectively. For humans, we go through meiosis to create sex cells -- but this isn't the case as we see here and in plants, which is why I emphasize going from 2n to n. There is an initial duplication where Meiosis I goes from one 2n cell to two 2n cells, and in Meiosis II, each of those cells creates two n cells (so one 2n cell to four n cells).
You got it! (And yes, it is asci, and basidia is the plural form). But, keep in mind there are thousands of asci and basidia on those shrooms, so even though sporangia have tons of spores inside of them, there's only one sporangium.
