NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fungi are consumers, and therefore they get the energy they require to survive from other creatures. There are three main ways fungi obtain energy: living in or on other animals as parasites, decomposition of dead organic matter, and living mutually with other creatures.

Detailed explanation-2: -A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirement from another living plant.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is a type of nutrition in which organisms live on or inside the bodies of their hosts and feed on them. The parasite is the organism that obtains the food, and the host is the organism from which the food is taken. Example-lice on humans and ticks on dogs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Parasitic and Pathogenic Fungi. Parasitic and pathogenic fungi form symbiotic relationships with other living organisms, similarly to mycorrhizal fungi; however, they benefit to the detriment (and sometimes death) of their host. Many species affect trees and other plants.