Question

Mushrooms play look like plants but you’re actually fungi what is the similarities and differences between fungi and plants

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Similarities

• Both fungi and plants are multicellular organisms with different cells performing various life functions.
• They are both eukaryotic organisms with membrane bound organelles and having a distint nucleus.
• Fungi and plants are generally fixed and they do not move from one place to another like animals.

Differences

• Plants produce their own food and are called autotrophs while most fungi are heterotrophs that feeds on chemical matter from producers.
• Plants are producers in the ecosystem while fungi are decomposers.
• Plants reproduce using seeds while fungi use spores
• In plants, food produced are stored as starch whereas in fungi, food is stored as glycogen.
• Examples of plants are orange, mango, banana while mushrooms are fungi.
• Most plants are generally green in color while fungi are of different colors and are commonly white.