2nd Nature Walk: Fungi
For my nature walk, I traveled to the Houghton Garden. It was a very scenic route and very woodsy. The weather was somewhat cold with light sprinkles of rain. Along the walk, I noticed various fungi that we either growing from from the ground or on trees. All the fungi I observed looked like different species. I found this striking and questionable. The one thing that made me wonder about the fungi was their relationship to spores pertaining to molecular and metabolic characteristics which we learned in lecture. Spores essentially have the ability to take a cell and shut it down when necessary. I am curious to know if fungi undergo both sexual and asexual reproduction from horizontal gene transfer, which may explain the various fungi that I observed in the garden today because bacteria and eukarya are very similar. Horizontal gene transfer promotes both genetic and microbial diversity which can possibly explain why the the fungi have different characteristics of color, size, and the location of their growth.
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