Wastewater Microorganism Species - How Fungi and Algae Affect Wastewater Treatment
Fungi are similar to the bacteria but are multicellular wastewater microorganism species.
The fungi are larger than the bacteria and cannot compete with the bacteria or other microorganisms in wastewater for organics under normal environmental conditions.
The fungi tend to be filamentous and present too much mass per surface area.
Wastewater fungi are strict aerobes and cannot grow in the absence of oxygen.
Municipal wastewaters contain fungi spores, primarily from the soil.
Fungi have a vegetative structure known as mycelium.
The mycelium consists of a rigid, branching system of tubes, through which flows a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm.
A mycelium arises by the germination and outgrowth of a single reproductive cell, or spore.
Yeasts are exceptional fungi that cannot form a mycelium, so are unicellular.
Fungi are heterotrophs and are able to utilize a wide range of organic materials.
They are mostly aerobic wastewater microorganism species.
Algae are true photosynthetic microbes, requiring light for energy while using inorganics for cell protoplasm.
Algae, in wastewater do not compete with the bacteria and the fungi for nutrients.
Like fungi spores, the algae enter municipal wastewaters from the soil.
Algae maybe unicellular or multicellular variety of wastewater microorganism species.
They could be autotrophic, photosynthetic protists.
They are classified according to their photosynthetic pigment and taxonomic and biochemical cellular properties.
Algae in wastewater range in size from tiny single cells to branched forms of visible length.
Four classes of algae are of importance: Green (chlorophyta) - They are freshwater species, can be unicellular or multicellular.
Motile green (euglenophyta) They are colonial, unicellular and flagellated.
Yellow-green (chrysophyta) - Most forms are unicellular.
In this group, the most important are diatoms which have shells composed mainly of silica.
Blue-green (cyanophyta) - They are unicellular, usually enclosed in a sheath and have no flagella.
An important characteristic is their ability to use nitrogen in cell synthesis, from the atmosphere as nutrient.
The fungi are larger than the bacteria and cannot compete with the bacteria or other microorganisms in wastewater for organics under normal environmental conditions.
The fungi tend to be filamentous and present too much mass per surface area.
Wastewater fungi are strict aerobes and cannot grow in the absence of oxygen.
Municipal wastewaters contain fungi spores, primarily from the soil.
Fungi have a vegetative structure known as mycelium.
The mycelium consists of a rigid, branching system of tubes, through which flows a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm.
A mycelium arises by the germination and outgrowth of a single reproductive cell, or spore.
Yeasts are exceptional fungi that cannot form a mycelium, so are unicellular.
Fungi are heterotrophs and are able to utilize a wide range of organic materials.
They are mostly aerobic wastewater microorganism species.
Algae are true photosynthetic microbes, requiring light for energy while using inorganics for cell protoplasm.
Algae, in wastewater do not compete with the bacteria and the fungi for nutrients.
Like fungi spores, the algae enter municipal wastewaters from the soil.
Algae maybe unicellular or multicellular variety of wastewater microorganism species.
They could be autotrophic, photosynthetic protists.
They are classified according to their photosynthetic pigment and taxonomic and biochemical cellular properties.
Algae in wastewater range in size from tiny single cells to branched forms of visible length.
Four classes of algae are of importance: Green (chlorophyta) - They are freshwater species, can be unicellular or multicellular.
Motile green (euglenophyta) They are colonial, unicellular and flagellated.
Yellow-green (chrysophyta) - Most forms are unicellular.
In this group, the most important are diatoms which have shells composed mainly of silica.
Blue-green (cyanophyta) - They are unicellular, usually enclosed in a sheath and have no flagella.
An important characteristic is their ability to use nitrogen in cell synthesis, from the atmosphere as nutrient.
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