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Do fungi make food

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

No, fungi, like ourselves, must get their food from outside themselves, in other words they are heterotrophs. Most produce enzymes which break down the dead matter on which they grow, in other words they are saprophytes.

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