Question

The characteristics shown both by animals and fungi are

I. Autotrophic mode of nutrition

II. Extracellular digestion

III. Lack of cell walls

IV. Membrane-bound organelles

• A. I and III
• B. I and IV
• C. II and III
• D. II and IV
• E. IV only

Answer 1

The correct option is D II and IV

Fungi are saprophytes and carry out extracellular digestion to digest complex organic material present in dead and decaying organic matter. Some saprophytic animals also exhibit extracellular digestion. They have chitinous cell wall while animals lack it. Both fungi and animals are eukaryotes and have membrane bound organelles. This makes II and IV correct for both these groups. The correct answer is D.