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How does each of the following fungi fit the characteristics of the kingdom? Yeast, mold, mildew and mushrooms.

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The main characteristic that differs the kingdom Fungi from all other kingdoms is the presence of cell wall made of chitin. Kingdom Animalia has no cell wall, while plants, bacteria, and some protists have cell walls but made of different polymers. The members of the kingdom do not photosynthesise and they are heterotrophs, like animals. The kingdom of fungi includes yeast, mold, mildew, and mushrooms and all of those groups are heterotrophs and have chitin cell wall. Yeasts are unicellular fungi, while molds, mildew (which are certain kind of molds), and mushrooms are multicellular fungi,  
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