What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan

Exercise 7

Which of the following comparisons and contrasts between fungi and plants is incorrect?
A) Fungi cannot photosynthesize, but plants can.
B) Both fungi and plants use chitin as a structural stabilizer.
C) Fungi are heterotrophs (i.e., cannot fix carbon and so must use organic carbon for growth), but plants are not.
D) Both fungi and plants have cell walls.
E) Both fungi and plants have a sexual stage in their reproductive cycle.