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Mushrooms belong to a kingdom of their own

Fungi digest food outside their bodies and store energy as glycogen Fungi were once grouped with plants, but they lack chlorophyll and cannot photosynthesise. Instead they release enzymes into their surroundings and absorb the products, and they store energy as glycogen, as animals do. The part we pick is the fruiting body of a network of threads that may spread through metres of soil or wood. It sits in Mondo's food collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Fungi digest food outside their bodies and store energy as glycogen. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a food fact?: Yes. It sits on the Food shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.