Is a mushroom heterotroph

Answer 1

Heterotroph are organisms that consume or eat their own food. Examples: sheeps, Spiders, cows etc

Mushrooms are producers rather than heterotrophs because their depend on sunlight to make their own food. All producers like grass, plants and any other green plants depend on the suns energy to produce their own foods.

Answer 2

Yes, mushrooms are heterotrophs as they can not make their own food like plants. Plants have organelles that them to do that but fungi like mushrooms do not. Just by looking them you can see that they are not green.

Answer 3

Yes, mushrooms are heterotrophs. They obtain their nutrition by decomposing organic matter or by forming symbiotic relationships with other organisms to acquire nutrients.