Fungi, singular, fungus, is a group of eukaryotic, non-phototrophic organisms with rigid cell walls, that includes mushrooms, molds and yeasts. This definition has some words in it that probably need definitions of their own.et's review. The Fungi are a group of eukaryotic, non-phototrophic organisms with rigid cell walls. This includes mushrooms, molds and yeasts. Many fungi are saprophytes, getting nutrients by absorbing them from dead, decaying plant material. Still, other fungi are parasitic, stealing resources from a host organism.
The woodwind family includes a number of instruments, many of them popular with school band musicians. Members of the woodwind family include: the clarinet; the oboe; the bassoon; the flute; the recorder; the piccolo and the bagpipes.ne of the first things a new musician learns is that instruments are categorized by family. That is, instruments with similar features are grouped together in a family of instruments similar to them.
Since I first played oboe in a woodwind quintet at about age 13, I've been a fan. I love the richness of five distinct, heterogeneous voices that blend in innumerable ways, so unlike the insistent unity of the string quartet. (Only two of the quintet instruments share the same sound-producing mechanism, and even those two don't sound much alike. The oboe and bassoon are both double reeds; the clarinet is a single reed; the flute has a sound-hole; the horn isn't even a woodwind, but just wandered in from sheer curiosity, and stayed for 200 years.)