Question

Complete the following paragraph to describe the evolutionary history of fungi. Fungi and animals are ; however, fungi are , a special type of heterotroph that absorbs food from the environment instead of eating it. protists animals Fungi release special into the environment to break down dead and decaying organic matter so that its nutrients can be absorbed. enzymes carbohydrates Fungi and share a common ancestor, so it is thought that fungi are most closely related to this group. autotrophs 460 million Their most recent common ancestors were most likely flagellated plants unicellular The ability to become likely evolved separately after the protist and fungi lineages diverged. multicellular 2.5 million The oldest fungi fossils are dated around years old. Scientists don't know for certain when the very first fungi appeared on Earth, but it was clearly a very long time ago. heterotrophs saprotrophs Reset

Answer 1

1) heterotrophs ( fungi and animals are heterotrophs which mean they feed on others cause they don't have a mechanism to make their own food)

2) saprophyte (mode of nutrition in which the breakdown of food takes place outside the body)

3) enzymes (fungi are saprophytic so they secrete digestive enzyme on food and then suck the digested food inside the body)

4) Animals( Fungi, animals, and plants were together but plants diverged out before fungi so that's how fungi and animals share a common ancestor)

5) unicellular (Protista are the group of organisms which are unicellular eukaryotes, some of them are with flagella)

6) protists(All unicellular eukaryotes are placed in this group some of them are either heterotrophs or autotrophs)

7) Multicellular (the ability to become multicellular emerged after the separation from protists cause protists have all unicellular organisms)

8) 460 million years ( the first oldest fossils of fungi are dates around 460 million years found in shale, researcher used uranium-lead dating for this purpose)