Geo Mushrooms Activity
Mushrooms are part of a fungi. Not all fungi
product mushrooms. When some fungi reproduce they form the mushrooms. Some
species of fungi are used in the production of food, beverages and medicines. Fungi
known as yeast are used in making bread and alcoholic beverages, like beers.
Some mushrooms are employed in cooking and eaten in
many dishes. But there are mushrooms so dangerous, if you eat it…you can died!
In the manufacture of certain types of cheese molds are used which give them a
very characteristic flavor. In 1920, scientists discovered a substance that
could be used in antibiotics, present in a fungus called Penicillium.
Since then, fungi began to be used in the production
of antibiotics and other medicins. In the nature there are also parasitic fungi
that cause diseases in animals and plants, such as rust of coffee and fungal
infections in the skin of animals. Fungi and bacteria are the main decomposers
in nature and play an important role in the recycling of organic, nutrient
balance fundamental nature. Nowadays are known more than 70 thousand species of
fungi, but experts believe that there is worldwide nearly 1.5 million species.
Mushrooms in the history
In the 1800s, the Irish solved the problem of feeding a growing population by planting potatoes. But the fungus Phytophthora infestans, caused a disease who decreased production of potatoes in Ireland. As Ireland was so dependent on the potato, one in eight Irish died of starvation in three years during the Great Irish Famine of 1840. The fact that Europe is at the forefront in the fight against mortality allowed him to increase its population living in the rest of the world. Therefore, in the nineteenth century, part of Europe to other continents a large amount of surplus population, which has made this continent to capture a sharp dwindling population, caused mainly by the growing attraction of North America (whose population doubled between 1830 and 1914), and Latin America.
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Based on these informations above. Now we are introduce the teams about what kind of tools will be supporting our actiivity.
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