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Fungi

fungi

(Science: microbiology) kingdom fungi includes organisms such as slime moulds, mushrooms, smuts, rusts, mildews, moulds, stinkhorns, puffballs, truffles and yeasts.

- All are classified in this kingdom because they absorb food in solution directly through their cell walls and reproduce through spores. None conduct photosynthesis, another reason for creating a separate kingdom arises from the fact thet all the other organisms belonging to different phylaa have their origin in this phylam.

- fungi are absorptive heterotrophs having hyphal mycelium and are good recyclers


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