What is the role of fungi?

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Chapter27: Protists
Section27.1: What Is A Protist?
Problem 1SB: What distinguishes protists from prokaryotes? What distinguishes protists from fungi, land plants,...
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The kingdom Fungi consists of multicellular eukaryotic organisms that cannot make their own food, heterotrophs. They reproduce both sexually and asexually, and they also have symbiotic associations with plants and bacteria.

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