Fungi

How are fungus different from animals?
Fungi cannot make their own food like plants can, since they do not have chloroplasts and cannot carry out photosynthesis. Fungi are more like animals...
Which is following is never included in the fungal life cycle?
What are the life cycle of fungi?What are the four basic steps in the life cycle of fungi?What is included in the fungi group?What are the 4 classifi...
Do fungi eat food just as animals do?
Unlike animals, fungi do not ingest (take into their bodies) their food. ... Fungi generally have two stages, the feeding stage and the fruiting body....
Are mushrooms phylogenetically more closely related of plants or to animals?
Computational phylogenetics comparing eukaryotes revealed that fungi are more closely related to us than to plants. Fungi and animals form a clade cal...
How many years ago did animals diverge from fungi?
In 1998 scientists discovered that fungi split from animals about 1.538 billion years ago, whereas plants split from animals about 1.547 billion years...
What kind of animal eats fungi?
Many mammals eat fungi, but only a few feed exclusively on fungi; most are opportunistic feeders and fungi only make up part of their diet. At least 2...
Why do some scientists classify fungi as plants and other scientists classify them as animals?
Test Your Knowledge Fungi are more like animals because they are heterotrophs, as opposed to autotrophs, like plants, that make their own food. Fungi ...
What does fungi do to died animals?
Fungi release enzymes that decompose dead plants and animals. Fungi absorb nutrients from the organisms they are decomposing! Does fungi break dead an...
Do animals and fungi both have chitin?
Fungi and animals both contain a polysaccharide molecule called chitin that plants do not share. Chitin is a complex carbohydrate used as a structural...