Fungi: Death Becomes Them - CrashCourse Biology #39

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  • Опубликовано: 21 окт 2012
  • Death is what fungi are all about. By feasting on the deceased remains of almost all organisms on the planet, converting the organic matter back into soil from which new life will spring, they perform perhaps the most vital function in the global food web. Fungi, which thrive on death, make all life possible.
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    Table of Contents
    1) Biolography 02:07
    2) Structure 04:53
    3) The Decomposers 06:10
    4) The Mutualists 06:38
    5) The Predators 07:23
    6) The Parasites 07:35
    7) Reproduction 08:24
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  • @AaronLockman
    @AaronLockman 11 лет назад +353

    Unlike with my real teachers, I can just rewind Hank to the point where my attention started wandering.

  • @elizabethleighton9195
    @elizabethleighton9195 11 лет назад +210

    Pardon this geek-out. I've studied this subject and I love it.
    To add to the category of mutualists: endophytes. Fungal endophytes live in plant tissue walls where they can be beneficial or antagonistic. Sometimes one species of endophyte will be beneficial in one plant species but antagonistic in a different plant species. They produce secondary metabolites that can serve all kinds of strange purposes in a plant. They are also believed to be nearly universally present in plant species.

  • @Adrian_1751
    @Adrian_1751 5 лет назад +189

    Fungus is amazing. I’m growing some in my drawer.

  • @saphirarose5866
    @saphirarose5866 5 лет назад +63

    Stop reading the comments and keep studying! :D You got this!

  • @MooMooMath
    @MooMooMath 7 лет назад +106

    The more I learn about fungi the more impressed I'm with this group of organisms. Thanks for the helpful video. Great research as always.

  • @willowcullentorrey9486
    @willowcullentorrey9486 7 лет назад +74

    Would you consider doing a crash course mycology series? Fungi really deserve their own series not just one video don't you think?

  • @lyzax2185
    @lyzax2185 6 лет назад +1356

    Wow hank you’re such a... fun-gi

    • @mrbateman360
      @mrbateman360 5 лет назад +19

      OH MY GLOB

    • @varkin2742
      @varkin2742 5 лет назад +8

      hah hah hah good joke

    • @leo-hao
      @leo-hao 5 лет назад +7

      Thankyou, radioactive Fun... dge

    • @maddieecakee
      @maddieecakee 5 лет назад +1

      hahahahahaha i laughed too hard at this

    • @sharkish0
      @sharkish0 5 лет назад +3

      *rim shot*

  • @o_o-037
    @o_o-037 4 года назад +259

    I don't like mushrooms, coz I'm not a ... fun-guy
    I'll leave now.

  • @halfblood_drag0n
    @halfblood_drag0n Год назад +5

    fugi come in 3 type, deadly, edible, and magic

  • @sbinnala5769
    @sbinnala5769 8 лет назад +271

    I've put this video on 1.25x speed and Hank speaks at the same rate as he does in later videos...

    • @hotaruishere2133
      @hotaruishere2133 4 года назад +14

      Wow, that is absolutely true. This bothers me so much xD my mind has been blown!
      It almost sounds completely natural!!!

    • @Kiki-Buttons
      @Kiki-Buttons 4 года назад +1

      🤯 Thanks

  • @kat_the_mouse
    @kat_the_mouse 11 лет назад +220

    "we should talk briefly about fungus sex." Previous Unsaid Sentences

  • @natsutan8552
    @natsutan8552 6 лет назад +454

    IVE BEEN WATCHING THESE VIDS ON 2X SPEED WITH SUBTITLES FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF AHJASHJSAHAJSHSAJSAH I HAVE A TEST IN EIGHT HOURS

    • @anniez6817
      @anniez6817 6 лет назад +6

      Raeka Tan How did you go?

    • @leo-hao
      @leo-hao 5 лет назад +9

      Chil... no need to yell...

    • @davidsan9654
      @davidsan9654 5 лет назад +6

      you failed

    • @Emix1021
      @Emix1021 4 года назад +12

      **cough** **cough**
      ARMYYYYYYYYY!
      **cough** **cough**

    • @neel7468
      @neel7468 4 года назад +1

      Now I know how people waste time.

  • @c7dermatome
    @c7dermatome Год назад +8

    The ant head invading fungi.... so good, this makes the chest erupting things from the Alien movies seem quite tame, by comparison. Great Video, what a fantastic channel this is.

  • @sunriselg
    @sunriselg 10 лет назад +15

    My biology teacher liked to say "If someone asks you a question about biology the answer is probably one of those four words: "enzymes", "proteins", "surface maximization" or "key-lock principle"."

    • @mrslovvet
      @mrslovvet 10 лет назад +9

      the whole "key-lock" principle of enzymes turned out to be wrong, didn't it? The enzyme wraps around the substrate, so the analogy doesn't really work anymore.

  • @hunterklie
    @hunterklie 11 лет назад +12

    This is one of my favorite biology crash course episodes. Fungi. Excellent.

  • @maathaindobe
    @maathaindobe 4 года назад +12

    Your happy vibe is mindblowingly addictive. I love your videos❣

  • @catherinejackson9924
    @catherinejackson9924 7 лет назад +6

    This review was very helpful. I am reviewing for my MT exam in Microbiology and did not work in the mycology section of the lab, so I need all the help I can get! My kids may even watch this, hopefully!

  • @patriciaescobedo8020
    @patriciaescobedo8020 6 лет назад +8

    I love this. He makes biology fun. He is funny and I actually learned a lot from Crash Course videos more so than others.

  • @elise5021
    @elise5021 4 года назад

    Thanks again Crash Course. Love your work. I have seen so many of your videos! Very helpful for getting started on a topic and for getting into the geek mood. x

  • @ihh2921
    @ihh2921 6 лет назад

    I've found one of my favorite youtube channels right here, incredibly well put, easy to understand and kinda fun

  • @teddysammy12
    @teddysammy12 6 лет назад +13

    I'm a visual learner, and sometimes I think it would be nice to have diagrams in your videos.

  • @velbythorngage
    @velbythorngage 11 лет назад +23

    When I knew we were getting into the study of fungus, I was a little skeptical about the capability of making this interesting, but Hank is just made of entertainement

  • @richardatchison9913
    @richardatchison9913 6 лет назад

    I really do appreciate all the information that all of you put out on RUclips I've been watching your channel now for awhile the multiple channels all of you have and all I want to say is keep up the good work you're very informal they helping my son with his work and I recommend this channel many of y'all's other channels to people searching to find more information

  • @danielhahn7329
    @danielhahn7329 5 лет назад

    Wow, this is really good. Interesting and concise. Well done.

  • @premdesai8767
    @premdesai8767 8 лет назад +164

    best tutor ever seen keep it up....

    • @adaxasd
      @adaxasd 6 лет назад +5

      Yeah, Hank's a fun guy

  • @skittles1800
    @skittles1800 11 лет назад +6

    The ants can actually tell when a single ant has the fungi in its head and one of the worker ants will carry it far away from the colony so more ants don't get infected. It's amazing really.

  • @rachelstoner1743
    @rachelstoner1743 5 лет назад

    Thank you so much! I’m in a program at Penn Foster and have to study everything on my own. I don’t know what I would do without them!

  • @OrangesSC
    @OrangesSC 11 лет назад +1

    This video is awesome! I learned more from this than any of my science classes!

  • @mindalacy
    @mindalacy 4 года назад +6

    I would like you to do a whole video on plasmogymy. That would be amazing!

  • @alyssacleland
    @alyssacleland 7 лет назад +3

    I definitely thought I was going to fail my exam in a few hours -- then I found this series. THANK YOU.

  • @htlind
    @htlind 9 лет назад

    thanks for the video your videos are always so helpful!

  • @tatakon6
    @tatakon6 9 лет назад +1

    Thank you! This video helped me so much!

  • @FungusWhisperer
    @FungusWhisperer 9 лет назад +18

    This guy'd be cool for a Geo Romero film - NIGHT OF THE LIVING FUNGI ! (Theater trailer narration): "They Feast On the Deceased - nothing is safe from their ghastly appetites - not even bats. It happened to them - it could happen ,.. to you." Sequel - DAWN OF THE ZOMBIE ANTS?

    • @sharkish0
      @sharkish0 5 лет назад

      You would love The Last of Us. Also username checks out.

  • @ryanacosta4387
    @ryanacosta4387 7 лет назад +498

    who tryna cram before midterms??

  • @rinadubbeling
    @rinadubbeling 10 лет назад

    Love your energy! Keep up the good work (y) :-)

  • @kristina5108
    @kristina5108 7 лет назад +1

    I remember watching your videos when I was going to a municipal competition. I got 3rd place on that and I continued to a regional competition which I got 1st place on. Now I'm going to a state level competition this Sunday. I honestly don't know what else to say expect thank you❤️❤️❤️

  • @FB-mw5gv
    @FB-mw5gv 7 лет назад +33

    I'm waiting for the
    "The Zombie Ant Fungus" movie.
    Someone make it please yeah!?🙋🏽

    • @hrabesancho1892
      @hrabesancho1892 4 года назад +6

      It exists, but its a video game called Last of Us. These fungus zombies with erupted heads are much more scary than regular zombs.

    • @cityuser
      @cityuser 4 года назад +1

      Yeah how about we don't make that

  • @sonyaschwarz6830
    @sonyaschwarz6830 7 лет назад +103

    Did anyone notice that the book he's reading is blank?

    • @lone2234
      @lone2234 5 лет назад +6

      This is one year ago but I think that was the page that connects to the cover or the page before the inside title so it was blank

    • @leo-hao
      @leo-hao 5 лет назад +4

      No it was literally some random book that they picked and the book was literally the same one! They just changed the coverings!!!

    • @DanielaMoreno-xn9ve
      @DanielaMoreno-xn9ve 4 года назад

      @@leo-hao There are some books with that sort of covering, i dont think they did a change

  • @vanessahodges2517
    @vanessahodges2517 5 лет назад

    You're awesome. Thank you for these videos!

  • @Sure_fire_
    @Sure_fire_ 6 лет назад

    Great episode. Mushrooms are absolutely amazing. I'm hoping soon to find more information on the bioremediation abilities of fox fire.

  • @robinhuber8002
    @robinhuber8002 5 лет назад +32

    At 6:20, you say that lignin is degraded into glucose... That's not true ! Lignin is a polyphenolic structure, not composed of glucose at all. I guess you confuse it with cellulose :)

  • @tigerfry-stone4438
    @tigerfry-stone4438 10 лет назад +8

    Cordiceps - my fav as it featured in the last of us :)

  • @StephenGillie
    @StephenGillie 4 года назад

    Wow, what a straightforward and uncomplicated video - all facts, no tangents. Why can't we return to these simple ways?

  • @PinkLove961
    @PinkLove961 10 лет назад +1

    Bio test tomorrow - this is a LIFE SAVER!!! Tank you so much!! :) Good luck to everyone :P

  • @SimaoFan
    @SimaoFan 11 лет назад +8

    Can you do a whole episode on zombie ants? It feels like more people should be aware about that kind of fungus

  • @namegamereviews
    @namegamereviews 10 лет назад +459

    Psilocybin!

    • @Chwiirleader
      @Chwiirleader 6 лет назад +19

      Muscimol!

    • @believen_uboo3705
      @believen_uboo3705 6 лет назад +2

      😂😂

    • @1312x1312
      @1312x1312 5 лет назад +21

      Its an interesting thought, fungus are closer to the animal kingdom than the plant kingdom, they inhale oxygen and exhale co2 just like us, and they give us this "spiritual" insights.. If you eat enough of it i guess you are starting to believe it's an extraterrestrial lifeform itself hahah, jokes

    • @Christian-os3sh
      @Christian-os3sh 5 лет назад +11

      Only some fungi synthesize psychoactive drugs though, just like some other lifeforms do too. Idk why it's worshipped as some kind of God.

    • @djordjevolarevic3872
      @djordjevolarevic3872 5 лет назад +26

      @@Christian-os3sh try about 20g of dried cubes.. maybe you'll get it that way

  • @stuartwatson8180
    @stuartwatson8180 5 лет назад +1

    This video massively plays down the importance and complexity of fungi.

  • @amberfisher5515
    @amberfisher5515 6 лет назад

    I just want to say thanks! I have a test tomorrow. And this really helped😊👍

  • @M_Chen333
    @M_Chen333 8 лет назад +60

    Hank is such a fun guy :D

    • @LukaDebiL
      @LukaDebiL 5 лет назад +3

      You mean a fun-gi

  • @horhito93
    @horhito93 11 лет назад +9

    Yes, I was about to do my homework

  • @bengisu7643
    @bengisu7643 7 лет назад +1

    this video is so useful for my biology class thanks!!!

  • @Bordelll
    @Bordelll 10 лет назад

    Thanks for talking about mtcorrhizae, so unknown and so important. No boreal forest without these. The soil is so acid, aluminum becomes toxic and the fungi protect the roots.

  • @OceanBagel
    @OceanBagel 6 лет назад +70

    Don't lie, you've said funji literally every other time in this series...

    • @ScionStorm1
      @ScionStorm1 6 лет назад +8

      Ocean Bagel Maybe this was secretly his "cry for help" video.

  • @Mr.LaughingDuck
    @Mr.LaughingDuck 6 лет назад +4

    The 1.5 million spp estimate may now too conservative. That estimate (David Hawksworth 1991) was calculated from data before the start of the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) era that allows for discoveries of greater fungal diversity per sample as well as the surge in fungal DNA sequences databases such as BLAST and UNITE. Accounting for fungi living in the tropics, aquatic, marine, and other habitats, the current range may be anywhere from 1.5 million to 10 million fungal species, with 5.1 million species being the most cited median value.
    Fun fact: It's estimated that at most only 10% of all fungi can be grown artificially. The remaining 90% require sequencing for discovery and identification.

  • @BigGreezyJake
    @BigGreezyJake 11 лет назад +1

    another great video man! shouldve done more on halucinagenic fungi and toxic shrooms tho!!

  • @Sam2260my
    @Sam2260my 5 лет назад

    Thank you! Really helpful.

  • @fartx211
    @fartx211 10 лет назад +7

    Hank's a fun guy.

  • @triciayeo3289
    @triciayeo3289 4 года назад +3

    I have a test next week

  • @dyllandebeer5599
    @dyllandebeer5599 6 лет назад

    great educational video. thanks thanks thanks

  • @anam6330
    @anam6330 7 лет назад +6

    "But, and this is a big butt" LOLOLOL face palm smh

  • @littlewitchParker3
    @littlewitchParker3 7 лет назад +14

    Hank is a really fun-guy.

  • @MrFab233
    @MrFab233 11 лет назад +1

    You make me laugh and learn Hank, thank you!

  • @IChoseTheRedPill
    @IChoseTheRedPill 11 лет назад

    Very well put together presentation crash...

  • @yolkuthesleuth9619
    @yolkuthesleuth9619 4 года назад +5

    you kinda look like shaggy in the scooby-doo movie from 2002

  • @kosiokoye2384
    @kosiokoye2384 7 лет назад +20

    analytically fungi is closer to animals than plants

  • @BobombGaming
    @BobombGaming 5 лет назад

    Thanks for helping me cram after not going to class for over a month :)))

  • @psycharol
    @psycharol 5 лет назад

    I am 70,I wander forests and nice places living in my tent for 6 months a year.
    This year I decided I would find and take photos of lichen and fungi.
    Thank you for the info on what they are, what they do.
    Great stuff!

    • @kornelszubzda6289
      @kornelszubzda6289 5 лет назад

      How old were you when u started living this way? And what is your budget for a 6 mounth journey like this, if I may ask sir?

  • @funnyvideos-rn5re
    @funnyvideos-rn5re 7 лет назад +13

    I remember seeing one of these they where a really fun guy

  • @maathaindobe
    @maathaindobe 4 года назад +6

    "more enterprising spores" 😸😸

  • @Allgipan76
    @Allgipan76 10 лет назад

    Excellent, funny and teaches really well!

  • @sexiibeast411
    @sexiibeast411 4 года назад +2

    Can you make some more in depth microbiology videos?? These are so good, but i need more!!!! hahaha

  • @ilivetoflyX
    @ilivetoflyX 10 лет назад +3

    Hmm you say you make ideal conditions for yeast by giving them "lots of suger and oxygen" (at the end of the video) I don't think this is too clear. If a brewer does this in fermentation you won't get any alcohol because it needs to be anaerobic respiration to produce alcohol.
    Did you mean to make the yeast plentiful before putting it I with the sugar?

    • @neogeo8267
      @neogeo8267 4 года назад

      The initial increase in oxygen is used to boost the ability of the yeast to reproduce, thus increasing their population. Once the oxygen is consumed, the mode of aspiration changes and they go off and CO2 and Ethanol and some other trace esters which give various varieties of beer their characteristic flavor profiles. Brewing is fun(gi) lol

  • @satishgadhe5800
    @satishgadhe5800 6 лет назад +10

    8:04 his face!!

  • @emwinnie5663
    @emwinnie5663 10 лет назад

    I love your videos but most of them are so confusing but this video made sense!!! I love fungi!!!

  • @khatleencrespo111
    @khatleencrespo111 6 лет назад

    Que buen video!! Gracias

  • @lukee_v
    @lukee_v 7 лет назад +5

    a million species of fun guy in the earth

  • @meegz149
    @meegz149 10 лет назад +15

    Came here after finishing The Last of Us:D

  • @ebonysadecarter
    @ebonysadecarter 7 лет назад

    Love these videos--just for fun!

  • @erintiffany4938
    @erintiffany4938 7 лет назад

    Thank you thank you thank you for this lesson ❤

  • @BenTvHowman
    @BenTvHowman 4 года назад +4

    I have lots of mushrooms in my front yard. I hit it with the mower before some kid could notice the phyicibin varieties

  • @lyzax2185
    @lyzax2185 6 лет назад +4

    That’s so freaking old

  • @54huggybear
    @54huggybear 6 лет назад

    What a lovely talk friend.

  • @jamesJohnson-qe4gw
    @jamesJohnson-qe4gw 8 лет назад

    you're a wonderful group of people *thanks!

  • @rachelnadya3302
    @rachelnadya3302 Год назад +6

    The last of us anyone?

  • @FraserSouris
    @FraserSouris 9 лет назад +8

    Check out The Last Of Us, this involves Cordecyps affecting humans.

  • @ABBY-py9kg
    @ABBY-py9kg 5 лет назад

    I love crash coarse so damn much!!

  • @gustavrider5561
    @gustavrider5561 4 года назад +1

    Fungi are amazing organisms, I wonder if there is a simulator of some sort to predict what environments can take them in, for I don't know, space colonization. It seems bringing up certain fungi varieties to space will become a must.

  • @jamiesamuels8691
    @jamiesamuels8691 8 лет назад +3

    Who needs Wikipedia for homework and study when you have this

  • @jmadcookie1277
    @jmadcookie1277 9 лет назад +5

    3:12 Anaerobic respiration and fermentation are two quite different things...

    • @YogeshChithore
      @YogeshChithore 8 лет назад

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    • @mazzalina9290
      @mazzalina9290 7 лет назад +4

      Josh Jackson no it isn't

    • @2527321
      @2527321 6 лет назад

      Yes it is

    • @animecats77
      @animecats77 6 лет назад +1

      Josh Jackson you’re right here’s a passage taken from ThoughtCo.
      Instead of just ending with the product of glycolysis like fermentation does, anaerobic respiration will create pyruvate and then continue on the same path as aerobic respiration.

  • @OnlyNo1Videos
    @OnlyNo1Videos 4 года назад +1

    very well done

  • @calebhansen9268
    @calebhansen9268 4 года назад +1

    Genuinely pleased with what you know about mycology.

  • @Argacyan
    @Argacyan 10 лет назад +5

    An interesting thing to think about : What if there where symbiotic fungi -or other types of liveforms- which would have a "relationship" to humans ?
    Edit (02.03.2015) : This comment is 9 months old - So, yea...

    • @EDUARDO12348
      @EDUARDO12348 9 лет назад +1

      there is! candida albicans, considered normal flora, but attacks you as soon as your immune system is weak or after taking antibiotics.

    • @thepip3599
      @thepip3599 9 лет назад +2

      If something "attacks" you it's not symbiotic, it's parasitic. Only they are benefiting.

    • @Argacyan
      @Argacyan 9 лет назад

      The Pip ok, but that's not even remotely what I'm talking about...

    • @aegonusstone3718
      @aegonusstone3718 9 лет назад +2

      The Pip Parasitism is a type of symbiosis. You're confusing it with mutualism. When it helps you, and you help it back, you are mutual AND symbiotic. Symbiosis literally means living together. A parasite feeds on you without you knowing about it. That is still symbiosis.

    • @DCsk8rgoelz
      @DCsk8rgoelz 9 лет назад +2

      take a good look into the human microbiome, there are strong arguments to be made that people are less themselves than they are a collection of other organisms (especially when you look strictly at cell numbers; we have more symbiotic bacteria and fungi in and on us than we do our own cells). symbiosis is something that is WAAAAAY more prolific and complicated than most people can imagine and it quickly becomes a philosophical debate about where to draw the line between symbiosis and ecology. NOTE: i am using the broad and scientific definition of symbiosis here (although most of the things in and on our bodies are in fact mutualistic or at least mostly mutualistic) with 'sym-' meaning 'together'. the commenter above is using the more colloquial definition which actually is closer to mutualism (which is a type of symbiosis)

  • @Man_De
    @Man_De Год назад +3

    Who else is coming here after watching the last of us...

  • @Seancooke89
    @Seancooke89 11 лет назад

    Loved that subtle Bishop Berkley reference Hank ( "that tree that nobody heard fall in the forest" )

  • @macmarty2025
    @macmarty2025 11 лет назад

    Great vid. Thanks.

  • @joshuahadams
    @joshuahadams 8 лет назад +3

    Came back here after today's SciSchow on fungi.

  • @sweepingtime
    @sweepingtime 11 лет назад +3

    What did the protist say to its sibling?
    "Profist!"

  • @kathyburnett7468
    @kathyburnett7468 5 лет назад

    Love this guy!

  • @josephallison4302
    @josephallison4302 11 лет назад

    this has got to be the best subtitle so far.

  • @DanielLennon100
    @DanielLennon100 4 года назад +3

    i watched this when my body infested by ring-like marks condition caused by fungi. It's itchy af