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Is a mushroom producer or consumer?
Mushrooms help to decompose dead organisms allowing the decaying material to go back into the food web. This means they are a type of consumer called ...
What type of consumers are fungi?
They must eat other organisms, or obtain their energy from these organisms some other way. The organisms that obtain their energy from other organisms...
How is fungi different for plants?
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...
What is the relationship when fungus grows on a rotting log?
What is the relationship between a mushroom and a rotting log?How do the fungi benefit from growing on a rotting log?What fungus lives in rotting log...
Is a mushroom heterotrophic or autotrophic?
Mushrooms are heterotrophs (i.e., they cannot perform photosynthesis). Consequently, they feed on organic matter. Chemical energy and useful materials...
Fungi and animals are both?
Similarities between Fungi and Animals Both are having chitin; cell wall of fungus is primarily made up of chitin whereas in some animals, chitin is p...
Is mold heterotrophic?
Mold is a living organism that belongs to the kingdom Fungi. Fungi are unique in that although some appear plant-like, they are neither plant nor anim...
What are mushroom adaptations?
Fungi have adapted over the years in response to their environment. One way in which they have adapted is by increasing their surface area of their gi...
Describe two symbiotic relationships involving fungi and members of another kingdom?
Two common mutualistic relationships involving fungi are mycorrhiza and lichen. ... A lichen is an organism that results from a mutualistic relationsh...