what are lichens? How they are different from mushroom?
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Fungi: One of the taxonomic kingdoms, comprising eukaryotic, non photosynthetic organisms, which obtain nutrients by the absorption of organic compounds from their surroundings. Lichen: A type of composite organism which consists of a fungus (the mycobiont) and an alga (the phycobiont) living in symbiotic association.
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Lichens are an association of algae and fungi.
They live in symbiotic relationship where algae provides fungi with food and fungi provides algae with water. Here, Algae is phycobiont and fungi is mycobiont. Lichens is an exception to the five kingdom classification. They live in a'master and Slave relationship' which is known as helotism.
In chemistry purple colored Lichens are used in formation of Litmus papers (An indicator to indicate whether a substance is acidic or basic.