Question

Study of Fungi is known as
(a)Phycology
(b)Mycology
(c) Palynology
(d)Bryology

Answer 1

Hint: Suffix ology is commonly used in the English language to denote a field of study.The study of fungi, a group that includes the mushrooms and yeasts. Many fungi are useful in medicine and industry.

Complete answer:
a) Study of fungi is called mycology.
b) Study of algae is called phycology.
c) Study of pollen grains, spores and microscopic planktonic organisms is called palynology.
d) Bryology is the study of mosses and liverworts.
Hence, the study of fungi is known as Mycology.

Additional Information:
General Characteristics of Fungi:
-It is Eukaryotic that means it has a well defined nucleus in which genetic material is embedded.
-They are best known for their decomposing capability(Decomposers – the best recyclers around).
-No chlorophyll and so they are non-photosynthetic.
-Most of them are multicellular (hyphae) and some are some unicellular (yeast).
-They are Non-motile.
-Cell walls are made up of chitin.
So, the correct answer is, “Mycology.”

Note: Mycology is that the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, also as their dangers, like toxicity or infection.
A biologist specializing in mycology is named a mycologist. Mycology branches into the sector of phytopathology, the study of plant diseases, and therefore the two disciplines remain closely related because the overwhelming majority of plant pathogens are fungi. Mycology was a branch of botany because, although fungi are evolutionarily more closely associated with animals than to plants, this wasn't recognized until a couple of decades ago. Fungi are fundamental for all times on earth in their roles as symbionts, e.g. in the sort of mycorrhizae, insect symbionts, and lichens.