Campbell Biology - With Access (Looseleaf) (Custom)
Campbell Biology - With Access (Looseleaf) (Custom)
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ISBN: 9781269590068
Author: Reece
Publisher: PEARSON
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To determine: Food adaptations in fungi if they had colonized land before plants.

Concept introduction: The dominant components of the terrestrial ecosystem are plants. The colonization of the land by plants occurred as they adopted the mode of nutrition as photosynthetic. The fungi kingdom has huge biodiversity and they are generally saprophytes orhave parasitic mode of nutrition. Fungi are present wherever the food source is available to them (either in mutual relationship or they feed on dead and decaying matter of plants and animals).

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