Are the fungi both autotroph and heterotroph . If yes then what type of nutrition they exhibit under autotrophic and heterotrophic mode of nutrition ?

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Fungi lack pigments required to carry out photosynthesis. They follow heterotrophic mode of nutrition by feeding on dead and decaying matter and hence are called saprophytes.

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