NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fungi are not plants. 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-2: -The larger portion of many fungi is underground, and can be acres in size! 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-3: -Like animals, fungi are heterotrophs which cannot make their own food. Do fungi move? Fungi do not move around and thus they make spores that are like seeds. These spores disperse through wind, animal, etc., and find new places to grow.

Detailed explanation-4: -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: -Fungi can’t move around so they make spores that are like seeds. Spores fly away on the breeze or in water, on animals or clothing and find a new place to grow that has everything they need. If they can’t find one, they just hibernate-they sleep until the right place comes along!