“Mushrooms cannot prepare their own food.” Explain.

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Mushrooms are fungi. They cannot prepare their own food since they lack chlorophyll. They obtain their nutrition from dead and decaying matter by releasing digestive juices. This type of nutrition is called the saprotrophic mode of nutrition.

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