Question

Some mushrooms can be eaten, while some will poison you. they are often mistaken as a plant. In which kingdom would you place them?

a- protista

b- fungi

c- plantae

Answer 1

Answer - b- Fungi

Reasoning - Fungi that are mistaken for mushroom such as Angel Death Mushroom is a Plant which people mistaken for mushroom and they eat and die.

Answer 2

Ans. (b). fungi.

Mushrooms or toadstool are spore-bearing, fleshy fungal organisms, having a domed cap on their stalk and gills on the lower side of cap. They be be edible (non-poisonous) or poisonous on the basis of their composition.

Fungi are often mistaken as plants as they also have rigid cell wall and they row out of the soil like plants. Mushrooms are placed in kingdom fungi, which includes eukaryotic, multicellular, heterotrophic organisms that feed through their mycelia.

Thus, the correct answer is option (b).