Much of a filamentous fungus’s life involves infiltrating organic tissue: weaving its hyphae between cells in decaying animals, for example, or, in the case of some pathogenic species, invading plants ...

Caterpillar fungus has been used as a medicine and is a delicacy in parts of Asia for many years ... And they found cordycepin interrupts the cell growth signals that are overactive in cancer.

A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria. Yeast are unicellular fungi. They are used by brewers ...

Their cell structure is simpler than the cells of animals, plants and fungi. Size Most are 5 μm - 100 μm. Most are 0.2 μm - 2.0 μm. Outer layers of cell Cell membrane, surrounded by cell wall ...