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Does fungi make their food

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No. Fungi do not make their food. Things that make their own food are called "Producers" Plants are a producer, but Fungi are Decomposers, which means that they secret digestive juices on nearby life forms, and then they absorb that living thing's nutrients.

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It doesn't. Fungi are heterotrophs and feeds on things by extracellular digesition.

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Some fungi use photosynthesis other's don't have chlorophyll so they secrete enzymes to break down material into sugars then they absorb those sugars.

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Because Fungi are not green they do not make there own food

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Fungi feed from dead and/or decaying matter.

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