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What are the 5 Characteristics of the Fungi Kingdom?
Kingdom Fungi has characteristics that identifies it. The organisms in this kingdom are eukaryotic, heterotrophic, reproduce by means of spores that might be asexual or sexual and they are non-vascular.
How are fungi able to survive harsh environments?
Unlike plants, which are self-feeding, fungi cannot create their own food like plants do through the sun. They need to get their energy off other life. Whether it be living off dead plants and other fungi as a saprobe, or living off live plants and fungi as a parasite, often killing them, or even making relationships with higher plants and trees, connecting their mycelium (the fungus' roots) with the trees roots and sharing nutrients evenly and living as a mycorrhizical fungus. In fact, many trees and plants cannot survive in the wild without mycorrhizical fungi. The fungi can also make relationships with many trees- creating a network between the trees' roots. Think of houses that we live in as the trees, and the power cords to the power lines connected to many other houses as the fungus. This is how it works in nature, and trees can even exchange their nutrients to other trees through the roots of the fungi, with the fungus getting a bit of the nutrients too. So basically the trees live as a family. Fungi which live off dead matter are very important. Without them forests would become choked with logs, sticks, etc. and they would never become soil again to be used by other plants, so when the plants use up all the soil, how can more be made? While fungi that live off live trees and plants may seem bad, it is just controllling the natural ecosystem- Controlling the amount of trees to make sure everything stays incontrol, so forests don't become choked with trees fighting for the soil, which will all be used up before the fungi that live on dead matter have decomposed it. In a sense, it is all a chain that must stay linked to keep going round and round! It uses it's enzymes to break down the starch, which is what fungi needs to survive.
