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What is the function of rhizoids?

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Rhizoids absorb water and nutrients from the surrounding soil.

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rhizoids are small branching hyphae that grow downwards from the stolons that anchor the fungus to the substrate, where they release digeastive enzymes and absorb digested organic matterial
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