what is the mode of nutrition. in fungi
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The mode of nutrition is fungi heterotrophic.
They cannot synthesize their own food and are dependent on other ‘organisms’ for their carbon source. They perform extracellular digestion by releasing enzymes into their environment and obtain organic and inorganic nutrients through absorption.
There are three main ways of obtaining nutrition:
(i) Saprotrophic: decomposition of ‘dead organic matter’.
(ii) Parasitic: feeding from a living host.
(iii) Mutualism: living in a mutually beneficial interaction with another organism. (Example: lichen is a mutualism between fungi and algae).