What type of nutrition is performed by fungus?

Answer 1

· Fungi are heterotrophs that acquire their nutrients by absorption.

· They absorb small organic molecules from the surrounding medium.

· Exoenzymes, powerful hydrolytic enzymes secreted by the fungus, break down food outside its body into simpler compounds that the fungus can absorb and use.

· The absorptive mode of nutrition is associated with the ecological roles of fungi as decomposers (saprobes), parasites, and mutualistic symbionts.

· Saprobic fungi absorb nutrients from nonliving organisms.

· Parasitic fungi absorb nutrients from the cells of living hosts.

· Some parasitic fungi, including some that infect humans and plants, are pathogenic.

· Mutualistic fungi also absorb nutrients from a host organism, but they reciprocate with functions that benefit their partner in some way.

Answer 2

Fungi secrete enzymes into the environment. These enzymes breakdown whatever the fungus is growing on (or in) into simplier molecules. It then absorbs these molecules.

Answer 3

Fungi have saprophytic,symbiotic & parasitic nutrition

Answer 4

Fungi are heterotrophs called saprophytes because they obtain nutrients from dead organic matter.

Answer 5

It is a type of heterotrophic nutrition.