NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fungi secrete digestive enzymes, then absorb nutrients from their surroundings. This is in sharp contrast to plants, which make their own food (thanks to their chloroplasts).

Detailed explanation-2: -Due to the absence of chlorophyll, fungi are unable to make their food by photosynthesis. They feed on the dead and decaying remains of other organisms.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mushrooms aren’t plants because they don’t make their own food (plants use photosynthesis to make food). The underground part of the fungus uses enzymes to “digest” other substances that it can use as food.

Detailed explanation-4: -While plants make their own food in their leaves using sunlight and carbon dioxide (CO2), fungi can’t do this. Instead, fungi have to get their food from other sources, living or dead. Animals, like fungi, cannot make their own food but they can at least move to find the food they need.

Detailed explanation-5: -The main difference between plants and fungi is how they obtain energy. Plants are autotrophs, meaning that they make their own “food” using the energy from sunlight. Fungi are heterotrophs, which means that they obtain their “food” from outside of themselves. In other words, they must “eat” their food like animals do.