CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Algae, along with plants and some bacteria and fungi, are autotrophs. Autotrophs are the producers in the food chain, meaning they create their own nutrients and energy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fungi are not autotrophs, they have no chloroplasts, they can only use the energy stored in organic compounds. This distinguishes fungi from plants. As against animals, fungi are osmotrophic: they obtain food by absorbing nutrients from the environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -All fungi are heterotrophic, which means that they get the energy they need to live from other organisms. Like animals, fungi extract the energy stored in the bonds of organic compounds such as sugar and protein from living or dead organisms.

Detailed explanation-4: -Autotrophs are organisms that can produce their own food from the substances available in their surroundings using light or chemical energy. Heterotrophs cannot synthesize their own food and rely on other organisms(both plants and animals) for nutrition.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fungi do not contain chlorophyll or carry out photosynthesis. As fungi feed on dead and decayed organisms they are heterotrophs.