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MPEG-1  |  2003-05-20  |  7.6 MB  |  320x240  |  29.97fps  |  37 seconds
Transcription: Kingdom fungi contains most of the decomposers of creation. In this microscopic video, you're seeing one species from this kingdom, toenail fungus, growing its mycelium. If your toenail is infected by this particular fungus, it will swell, grow yellow, white or black, and it can even become so fragile that it will crumble away altogether. The main reason I wanted to show you this video was to give you a good example of a mycelium. Notice the long strands that are continually growing throughout the video. We call those strands hypha and they make up the mycelium which is the main body of the fu ...