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Fungi

In Our Time: Science

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How Do Funge Fungi Get Their Nutrients?

Fungus secrete engymes which break down big molecules outside of their bodies into smaller molecules, and then these are absorbed intothe ongus. Other organisms have capitalized on this ability of fungy to break down a big molecules. For example, am termites, te the higher termites, they actually farm fungytermites and other animals don't have the ability to break down complicated molecule. In plants, such as lignin and an often not cellulas, is either, the main things that the plants are made of. So there are quite a lot of mutual ss like this in south america.

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