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decomposers
- important in forest food webs
- only fungi can digest ligin in wood
- primary decomposers of forest floor litter
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food for humans and animals
- mushrooms, yeast, cheese, wine and beer
- contain b vits, including pantothenic acid and niacin
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antibiotics and other medications
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ecological impacts of fungi
- agricultural diseases
- dutch elm disease, chesnut blight
- endophytes live in grasses, making themunpalatable to llvestock
- human diseases- athletes foot, lung infections, thrush
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human diseases
- athletes foot,
- lung infection
- thrush
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