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What characteristic of fungi makes them different from plants?

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Fungi are more like animals because they are heterotrophs, as opposed to autotrophs, like plants, that make their own food. Fungi have to obtain their food, nutrients and glucose, from outside sources. The cell walls in many species of fungi contain chitin.

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Fungi are heterotrophs they obtain their food, nutrients and glucose, from outside sources unlike plants that make their own food.
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