INTRODUCTION TO DENDROLOGY
IMPORTANCE OF DENDROLOGY
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Because fungi are very different from plants due to being heterotrophs NOT autotrophs.
|
|
|
Because fungi are very different from plants due to being autotrophs NOT heterotrophs.
|
|
|
Because Fungi are only unicellular and plants are only multicellular.
|
|
|
Because Fungi are only multicellular and plants are only unicellular.
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Arguably, Whittaker’s reasoning finally extricated fungi from the kingdom of plants, and so it is our next reason fungi are not plants: fungi have a unique mode of acquiring nutrients. Fungi secrete digestive enzymes, then absorb nutrients from their surroundings.
Detailed explanation-2: -They lack chlorophyll pigment because of which they cannot produce food on their own, therefore they depend on other organisms for deriving nutrition. Hence, we can say that all fungi are heterotrophic in nature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fungi are heterotrophic. Fungi are not able to ingest their food like animals do, nor can they manufacture their own food the way plants do. Instead, fungi feed by absorption of nutrients from the environment around them. They accomplish this by growing through and within the substrate on which they are feeding.