HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Based on observations of mushrooms, early taxonomists determined that fungi are immobile (fungi are not immobile) and they have rigid cell walls that support them. These characteristics were sufficient for early scientists to determine that fungi are not animals and to lump them with plants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Animals are different from fungi because animal cells have a cell membrane rather than a cell wall. Fungi cells have cell walls, like plants. Animals are also different from fungi because animals eat, or ingest, food, while fungi absorb their food.

Detailed explanation-3: -Both plant cells and fungal cells have cell walls; animal cells do not. Plant cells have chloroplasts, but neither fungal cells nor animal cells do.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fungal cells differ from mammalian cells in that they have cell walls that are composed of chitin, glucans, mannans, and glycoproteins. Both mammalian and fungal cells have cell membranes; however, they differ in their lipid composition.

Detailed explanation-5: -Both plant cells and fungi cells: Have cell walls. This is basically a thin, tough shell made of sugars that surrounds the cell. Animal cells (like yours) don’t have this cell wall.