Mushrooms belong to which kingdom?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. Fungi
- Step 1: Under the five-kingdom classification system proposed by R. H. Whittaker, organisms are grouped by cellular organization and nutritional strategy.
- Step 2: Mushrooms are multicellular, eukaryotic, spore-bearing organisms with chitinous cell walls that obtain organic nutrition absorptively as heterotrophic saprophytes, placing them in Kingdom Fungi.
- Step 3: They lack chlorophyll and photosynthesis, distinguishing them fundamentally from Kingdom Plantae.
Answer
Fungi.
Why not the others: Protista contains predominantly unicellular or simple colonial eukaryotic organisms such as protozoa and unicellular algae; Monera comprises unicellular prokaryotic organisms including eubacteria and archaebacteria; Plantae includes multicellular, autotrophic organisms possessing cellulose cell walls and chlorophyll for oxygenic photosynthesis.
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