No, fungi undergophotosynthesis just as plantsdo.
in its atmosphere on decaying material to break it down to a form that it can consume
Fungi receives food through filter feeding. It can also just eat bacteria.
THE TYPE OF FOOD BEARS EAT ARE INSECTS, HONEY, FRUIT, AND FUNGI
Animals eat fungi like sea snails.
Animals and fungi that must depend on autotrophs for their food energy are called consumers. These consumers are also called heterotrophs.
Mushrooms are fungi. Fungi and animals are heterotrophic, which means they rely on getting their food from plants and other organisms. So why? Well, just because that's how fungi are, and it's the way they always have been. In terms of how they "eat" they're closer to animals, even though they look more like plants.
Animals must eat their food because they might die. It is also because just like humans eat food, animals have to eat food.
The sun is where all things get their food but it isn't as simple as that. Plants use sunlight to make food for themselves using carbon dioxide and water. Others like animals have to base their diet on those plants. Even those animals that eat only meat, eat animals that eat plants. Cats are carnivores and only eat meat but those meat animals eat plants. The same is true of fungi except they use plants that are already dead and break them down.
Other than fungi, plants don't eat other plants so you need animals in the food chain. This includes herbivores to eat the plants. Carnivores to eat the herbivores. Omnivores eat both plants and animals.
Well, fungi is beneficial to animals because we eat fungi.
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Fungi are like plants because they don't move like plants. Because of this early scientists have classified fungi into same category as plants. Fungi are like animals because they are heterotrophic. They cannot produce their own food. One plant that moves like an animal is the TickleMe Plant. The leaves of the TickleMe Plant fold up and the branches droop when Tickled and it can be grown as a pet indoors.