NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The option that is not a characteristic of fungi is B) all break down food internally. Fungi do not break down their food internally, but do so externally.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fungi are not autotrophs, they have no chloroplasts, they can only use the energy stored in organic compounds. This distinguishes fungi from plants. As against animals, fungi are osmotrophic: they obtain food by absorbing nutrients from the environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -Characteristics of Fungi Fungi are eukaryotic, non-vascular, non-motile and heterotrophic organisms.

Detailed explanation-4: -All fungi are heterotrophic, which means that they get the energy they need to live from other organisms. Like animals, fungi extract the energy stored in the bonds of organic compounds such as sugar and protein from living or dead organisms.

Detailed explanation-5: -They reproduce by spores. Their cell wall is composed of chitin. They include eukaryotic organisms. They include prokaryotic organisms.