Kingdom Fungi: organisms that absorb nutrients from their surroundings rather than photosynthesizing or ingesting food, including mushrooms, molds, yeasts and lichens formed jointly with an alga or cyanobacterium. A kingdom of its own, distinct from plants, despite the historical habit of grouping fungi with them.
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They reproduce by both sexual and asexual means, and like basal plant groups (such as ferns and mosses) produce spores.
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