Question

give short notess on nutrition in fungi

Answer 1

The fungi utilise both organic compounds and inorganic materials as the source of their nutrient supply. In other words, organic and inorganic compounds constitute their food. No fungus is able to make any increase in its dry weight in the absence of organic food materials, why?

Lacking chlorophyll the fungi are unable to photosynthesize or use carbon dioxide to build up organic food materials. They are, thus heterotrophic for carbon (organic) food compounds which they in their natural habitats obtain by living as saprophytes or parasites from dead or living plants, animals or micro-organisms or their wastes.