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Give a comparative account of the classes of Kingdom Fungi under the following:
(i) Mode of nutrition
(ii) Mode of reproduction

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(i) Mode of nutrition. Fungi lack chlorophyll and thus do not show the process of hotosynthesis. They exhibit a heterotrophic mode of nutrition. They obtain their nutrition from external source by process of extracellular digestion and absorption of digested material. According to mode of nutrition, fungi are of two types :
(a) Parasites. Such fungi are found in intimate association with another living organism from which they derive food for their survival.
(b) Saprophytes. Such fungi obtain their food from non living decaying organic matter.
(ii) Mode of reproduction
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