Why
are
fungi classified as heterotrophs like animals?

Fungi is heterotypic animal because it takes its diet from its food chain like other animals.

Explanation:

Like animals fungi are also heterotrophs. Fungi use the complex compound in the form of carbon rather then fixing of carbon dioxide from the environment.

Most of the plants and some bacteria do the same things. Fungi does not fix nitrogen as well from the environment. Like other animals fungi takes other nutrients such as from diet. Some of the fungi multiply a-sexually and some fungi do have a-sexual and sexual reproduction with the alternation of generation. The fungi is used to commercial food industry to make the yeast for baking, brewing and for making cheese and wine. It is used for fermentation. It is also use in the form of enzymes and bacteria.

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