Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants.
Why:
- They don’t make their own food using sunlight (no photosynthesis)
- They absorb nutrients from their environment
- Their cells share similarities with animal cells
What this means:
Even though fungi look more like plants, they function very differently.
Think about it:
If fungi don’t make their own food, how do they survive?
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- Search: “fungi vs plants vs animals differences”
- Topic: heterotroph vs autotroph