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How do algae benefit lichens?

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fungi protects the algal partner from stronge light and desiccation in this way it gets food by the coutesy of alga.

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it is the producer, it produces oxygen, and allows other animals to eat it.

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Algae grows from sunlight and is a food for many other organisms.

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Lichen is algae growing together with fungi.

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producer or decomposer

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