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Fungi usually stores the reserved food material in the form of

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Starch
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Lipid
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Glycogen
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Protein
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Solution

The correct option is C Glycogen
The Fungi are eukaryotes, which may exist in nature as either single and multi-celled organisms, or in both at different points in the the life cycle. Fungi are usually found either as opportunistic saprophytes (living on dead organic matter) or in some parasitic or symbiotic relationship with plants or other autotroph.
Fungi digest food outside their bodies by releasing enzymes into the surrounding environment (exoenzymes), breaking down organic matter into a form the fungus can absorb food reserves stores as glycogen (like animals), not starch (like plants).

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