AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -What Is A Fungus? Fungi are plant-like organisms that lack chlorophyll. Since they do not have chlorophyll, fungi must absorb food from dead organic matter.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reason 1: Fungi Lack Chloroplasts Ghost pipes are an example of plants that lost chlorophyll. They obtain nutrients by parasitizing fungi (mycoheterotrophic).

Detailed explanation-3: -Fungi lack chlorophyll and hence cannot prepare their own food.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mushrooms are fungi. They belong in a kingdom of their own, separate from plants and animals. Fungi differ from plants and animals in the way they obtain their nutrients. Generally, plants make their food using the sun’s energy (photosynthesis), while animals eat, then internally digest, their food.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fungi lack chlorophyll and are unable to synthesize their food by the process of photosynthesis. They are therefore heterotrophic and obtain their food either from dead organic matter or from other living organisms. Examples: Yeast, Mushrooms, Bread mold (Mucor), Lichen, etc.