Mode of Nutrition in Fungi : Fungi are heterotrophic in nutrition. They are chlorophyll deficient plants and hence they cannot manufacture carbohydrates using carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. Fungi are with simple structural organization, thus they always depends on dead or living organic matter for their energy requirements. Mode of […]
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Kingdom Fungi General Characteristics (with PPT)
What are fungi? How fungi differ from other plants? Fungi (fungus) in Latin literally means mushrooms. Fungi are eukaryotic organisms with true nucleus and membrane bounded organelles. They are non-vascular Cryptogams included in Thallophyta along with algae due to their undifferentiated plant body. The study of fungi is called mycology […]
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