What is the major difference between animals and fungi in how they obtain nutrients?

What will be an ideal response?


Fungi are absorptive heterotrophs and animals are ingestive heterotrophs. Fungi obtain nutrients by
extracellular digestion. They are not mobile and they lack mouths or appendages for capturing and
handling food items.

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Which type of vessel is found in “bed” interlaced within tissues?

a. artery b. arteriole c. capillary d. venule e. vein

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Where are metanephridia found?

a. in mammals b. in flatworms c. in insects d. in annelids

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The main ingredient of crude oil is

A) diatoms. B) dinoflagellates. C) bacteria. D) algae.

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Which structure is more advanced in this group than

in other reptiles? a. A b. B c. C d. D e. none of these

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