Why does fungis don't make its own food?
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Originally classified as plants, fungi are not at all plants, because they are heterotrophs (they do not fix their own carbon through photosynthesis but use the carbon fixed by other organisms). Indeed, fungi are now thought to be more closely related to animals than to plants, and are placed together with animals in the monophyletic group of opisthokonts. However, unlike animals, fungi absorb their food rather than ingest it, and their cells have cell walls surrounding them. For these reasons, these organisms are placed in their own kingdom, Fungi.\n\nThe Fungi are a monophyletic group, meaning all varieties of fungi come from a common ancestor. Mycologists (scientists who study fungi) believe they are monophyletic because they have chitin in their cell walls and are absorbtive heterotrophs, along with other shared characteristics.
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Mushrooms are not autotrophs as they cannot manufacture their own food.
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Ben T needs to go back to class.\n\nAutotrophs make their own food from energy and simple chemicals in the environment, like plants and blue-green algae (anything with chlorophyll, although there is some chemosynthetic life that eats sulphur and stuff around hydrothermal vents!)\n\nHeterotrophs eat other living things or previously living things. I am a heterotroph because I had scrambled eggs and bananas for breakfast. Fungi are heterotrophs because they eat decomposing logs and leaves on forest floors, among other things.
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Some molds are dangerous because they cause allergic reactions and respiratory problems in susceptible people. Some molds also produce mycotoxins that are poisonous substances that can make people sick. When a food looks moldy, the mold spores have already invaded deeply into the product. Mycotoxins are most often contained in and around these spores, but may also spread throughout the food.\n\n\nAflatoxin is a cancer-causing poison produced by certain fungi in or on foods and feeds, especially in field corn and peanuts. They are probably the best known and most intensively researched mycotoxins in the world. Aflatoxins have been associated with various diseases, such as aflatoxicosis in livestock, domestic animals, and humans throughout the world. Many countries try to limit exposure to aflatoxin by regulating and monitoring its presence on commodities intended for use as food and feed. The prevention of aflatoxin is one of the most challenging toxicology issues of present  times.\n\nEven though penicillin is developed from molds.  Molds which produce toxins can make you sick.
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Sourdough yeast fungi are actually kept alive constantly in a liquid medium called a starter. The baker either captures wild yeast that floats in the air to create starter from scratch or gets a cup of active starter from a friend and expands it.\n\nYeast creates special enzymes to deal with starch. The yeast and lactobacilli also "poison" the culture with the alcohol and lactic acid they produce, and that keeps other bacteria out.\n\nAs the starter ferments, it will develop a strong aroma -- bready and alcoholy and not particular appetizing. Feed it every day or two by dividing it in half and adding a cup of flour and a cup of water to one half of it (you can throw the other half away). When you see a watery substance floating to the top, stir it. Sourdough bakers call this "hooch." Over the week the starter became a thick liquid, like pancake batter. It will be slightly yellowish.
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Fungi are chemoautotrophs, so they don't hunt for anything. \nBut I'd hunt for them, oyster mushrooms are delicious!
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Everyone who answered already are blithering idiots. All fungi produce exoenzymes that break down the substrate (food) that their spores land on. Similar to flies, fungi produce these enzymes to break down foods into simple sugars that they can then easily absorb. Different fungi produce different exoenzymes. Therefore, if a fungal spore happens upon a particular substrate (food) for which it doesn't produce the proper exoenzyme, it will not grow on that food. The best substrates are potato extract agar and malt extract agar.
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ok this is going to be hard as fungi can vary alot between diffrent spicies. \nI mean genrally you have hypthe. These are normally long storks which are inter conected with each other. On top of these are the spores called conida. There are 2 varities of conida mirocanida and macrocondia. Macrocondia is the bigger of the 2. Fugui can ether have one or both if these 2 types. Genrally the microcondia are small circular spores. As I havent seen the picture I cant really tell you any more, if you can find a link to the picture that would help alot and i should be abel to tell you more.
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its perfectly normal,dude...fungi grows on everything that can expire or dies... thats how they live.
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Fungus?  Not really a plant.
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A good majority of jelly fungi are edible, though not very tasty. That would give it a similar ecological importance as other edible plants, for instance blackberries. This fact makes it an important part of the food chain for many animals. It also adds nutrients into the soil when its life is over.\n\nHymenomycetes display the full range of ecological strategies that characterizes the Basidiomycota as a whole. To obtain carbon nutrition, Hymenomycetes decompose dead organic matter or enter into diverse associations (both antagonistic and benign) with plants, animals, and other fungi.
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all mushrooms are a form of fungus.\nSorry
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WHAT FUNGI IS A HETEROTROPH??!?!??!?!?! i thought that heterotrophs eat other heterotrophs or autotrophs for energy and i dont think mushrooms do that. Anyways the 4 heterotrophs are birds, wolves, snakes, and bears.
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Some certainly do, most obviously the hyphal fungi. Many bacteria and yeasts do not.\n\n______\nGigi said "They are animals and therefore undergo cellular\n >>>>>>> respiration in mitochondria like all other animal"\n\n\nThat is incorrect. Decomposers are mostly fungi and bacteria, not animals.
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By making conditions unfavourable for the fungi to live and cause fermentation. Basically, by a mild form of poisoning.
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I can think of a few:\n\nFungi are actually more closely related to animals. They get their food from living matter.\nHowever, they are different from animals because:\n\nThey absorb their food instead of ingesting it.\n\nThey have cell walls.\n\nThey are stationary, like plants.\n\nThey are different from plants because:\n\nThey are heterotrophs.\n\nThey lack roots.
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Plants are believed to have evolved from green algae, as they are both photosynthetic possessing the same pigments for photosynthesis.  Fungi are actually quite dissimilar from plants as they are not photosynthetic, some are parasites and all are chemotrophic.  They also use chitin in their cell walls as opposed to cellulose.  Fungi also store energy in the form of glycogen not starch, as plants do.