By studying the following life cycles, you will be able to discern whether or not hyphae are septate or non-septate, the ploidy (when haploid/N, dikaryotic/N+N and diploid/2N), the structures involves in sexual reproduction, and name of fruiting body when present.

Zygomycota

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Ascomycota

 

Basidiomycota

Lichen Sexual and Asexual Reproduction

Shows the sexual reproduction when fungal component is an Ascomycete fungus (or could instead be a Basidiomycete fungus with a small basidiocarp), but also shows asexual reproduction in the formation of soredia (small packets of fungal and algal tissue).