NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Both plant and fungal cells are enclosed by a cell wall while animal cells have no such characteristic. This is true, and cell walls exist in prokaryotes (bacteria, blue-green algae), too.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fungi resemble plants in having cell walls and lacking locomotion, but fungi and animals are more closely related evolutionarily.

Detailed explanation-3: -Plants are producers, using the energy of the sun to make seeds, cones, and spores to reproduce, while fungi are decomposers that break down decaying matter. Fungi create a fruiting body, the part of the mushroom we see aboveground that release spores to reproduce.

Detailed explanation-4: -Like plants, fungi are autotrophs. Fungi cannot make their own food like plants can, since they do not have chloroplasts and cannot carry out photosynthesis. Fungi are more like animals because they are heterotrophs, as opposed to autotrophs, like plants, that make their own food.

Detailed explanation-5: -They are both eukaryotic and have membrane-bound organelles in their body. Both of these organisms contain cell walls that protect their cells from excessive osmotic pressure to prevent damage to their cell organelles. However, the cell wall material is different from fungi and plants.