Question

fungi: plants or animals?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Fungi is neither plant nor animal. it is kept in a separate kindom called as Mycota.

Answer 3

Got it ?

Answer 4

How can we say that fungi are heterotrophic?

Answer 5

Because they do not have chlorophyll and have a saprophytic mode of nutrition.

Answer 6

@Abhisar It isn't Mycota, it Is Fungi. David Hibbett published a complete revision of the taxonomy with phylogenetics in mind in Novermber, 2007, Mycological Research (? journal may be wrong too lazy to bring up).

Lack of a chlorophyll has very little to do with why they are not plants. Many plants lack chlorophyll. Also, while the majority are saprophytes, that is just about every type of heterotrophic nutritional strategies in Fungi.

Answer 7

Well @mrdoldum they were under mycota according to whittaker's Five Kingdom classification.

Answer 8

@Abhisar Yeah, sadly even the newest edition of Campbell Biology has the classification system way wrong. Very frustrating to me.

Answer 9

The asker seems to be in primitive school, so i didn't wanted to confuse her !

Answer 10

@Very true, unless her teacher is particularly fond of Fungi and bringing in outside sources—I give it 1/10,000 odds.

Answer 11

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Answer 12

@mrdoldum also i said that they are heterotrophic because they lack chlorophyll. I never said that they are not plants because they lack chlorophyll.

Answer 13

@Abhisar, True, but since the question was whether or not Fungi are plants, stating the do not have chlorophyll is an inherent claim that it is at least partially why they are not plants, or animals.

Come to think of it, I wonder where the person is going to school. In some parts of the world Fungi are still in Plantae.

Answer 14

Actually again asked me a different question
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How can we say that fungi are heterotrophic?
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@mrdoldum

Answer 15

*she again

Answer 16

@Abhisar Ah, I missed that post and only saw the OP.

Answer 17

@Abhisar There is the possibility that a fungi has evolved to utilize alpha and/or beta radiation to make its own food. This is from samples of highly radioactive areas of Chernobyl.

Answer 18

May be, as mycologist u must be knowing the current advances.

Answer 19

@mrdoldum

Answer 20

@Abhisar I think it is very unlikely, but theoretically possible. Currently, hydrogen gradients allow ATPsynthase to capture the energy from H moving, so it seem possible that it could evolve to catch the energy from alpha and beta particles since they have mass.

Answer 21

According to Wikipedia, fungi are its own kingdom, they not plant, animal, protists, and bacteria.