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Mushrooms are a class of ________.

A

plants

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animals

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C

protists

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D

fungi

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Solution

The correct option is D fungi
Mushrooms are a class of fungi. They derive nutrition from dead and decaying matter. This mode of nutrition is called saprophytic nutrition and fungi are saprophytes.

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