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Do mushrooms need sunlight?
What is food for a mushroom? That depends.
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Are fungi plants?
There are fungus among us. How well do we understand them?
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Discern between self-sustaining autotrophs and consumer heterotrophs and find their places in the food chain
The basic components of ecosystems. Most ecosystems contain organisms that are producers...
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Great blue heron
A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) with a fish in its beak in the Everglades,...
U.S. National Park Service
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