Question

which characteristic could help you distinguish between plants and fungi?

Answer 1

Although fundamentally different, plant and fungi do share certain characteristics, which made it confusing at first to distinguish between the two.


Plants and fungi both have cell walls. However, they are of different substances. Plant cell walls are made from cellulose, whereas fungi cell walls are made from chitin.

Plants and fungi are both sessile. This means that both plants and fungi are stuck to the ground and cannot freely move.