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Fungi have cell walls composed of chitin instead of cellulose (usually). Fungi also lack chloroplasts and are therefore unable to perform photosynthesis. Fungi use the AAA pathway to synthesize lysine instead of the DAP pathway used by plants. Plants have multiple flagella on their motile spores while fungi only have one. The closing evidence are molecular phylogenies, which pretty consistently group fungi with animals on the tree of life.
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∙ 13y agoBoth are eukaryote organisms, but plants use photosynthesis to produce their food and fungi are consumers of detritus and do not produce their own food. This is a simple but profound difference between the kingdoms.
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∙ 7y agoFungi doesn't have chlorophyll. Plants do have chlorophyll.
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∙ 11y agoBecause fungi do not make their own food as plants can do. They are detritavores, saprophytes, that ingest detritus on forest floors and dead matter everywhere.
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∙ 13y agoFungi are saprophytic (decompose dead matter), that is how they get their food. Plants are autotrophic (make their own food), they produce their own food with photosynthesis.
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∙ 15y agoMushrooms are characterized as fungi, not plants. Mosses are considered plants.
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Why are plants and fungi placed in separate kingdoms?
Plants have chlorophyll and make energy from light; fungi don't.
What are the kingdoms of life?
Moneran, Protista, fungi, animalia, plantae are the five kingdoms
Which kingdoms include both unicellular and multi-cellular organisms?
Fungi and Protista.
What are animalia plantae protista fungi and monera?
the kingdoms of living beings; animals, plants, protozoa, fungi and ... dunno
Why do algae and fungi have their own kingdoms?
Algae and fungi posses characteristics that make them unique among all the organisms. Algae are different from plants because they perform cell division in a very different way, their reproductive structures are completely nude, while in plants the reproductive structures are covered with a sterile layer of cells. Fungi lack photosynthetic machinery, which differences them from algae, plants and some bacteria. So, fungi and algae posses a wide range of characteristics that are enough to separate them from other kingdoms and have their own.
Although they are from two different kingdoms plants and fungi always have?
Cell walls
Fungi and plants how are they covered under genereal botany?
As two different kingdoms of eukaryotes.
What are the 6 different animal kingdoms?
Animals, Plants, Protists, Monerans, Fungi, Bacteria
The five kingdoms of life?
The 5 Kingdoms are: Fungi, Plants, Animals, Prokaryotes and Protoctistans.
Which of the kingdoms in the six kingdom system of classification was once grouped with plants?
Originally, fungi were grouped with plants.
Why are plants and fungi placed in separate kingdoms?
Plants have chlorophyll and make energy from light; fungi don't.
Is bacterium a fungi?
No. They are in different kingdoms.
What are the kingdoms of life?
Moneran, Protista, fungi, animalia, plantae are the five kingdoms
6 animal kingdoms?
There are commonly recognized five animal kingdoms: Kingdom Animalia, Kingdom Plantae, Kingdom Fungi, Kingdom Protista, and Kingdom Monera. The animal kingdom specifically belongs to Kingdom Animalia, which includes multicellular organisms that are eukaryotic and heterotrophic.
What are the kingdoms in eukarya domain?
Anamalia, Protista, Flantae, Fungi. animals, protists, plants, and fungi respectively.
Which kingdoms contain organisms that can make their on food?
plants fungi
Which kingdoms include both unicellular and multi-cellular organisms?
Fungi and Protista.
