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mushrooms

Groups of organisms, including the Kingdom of fungi that includes molds and fungi. They can exist either as single cells or make up a multicellular organism is called a mycelium. Fungi lack chlorophyll and secrete digestive enzymes that decompose other biological tissues.

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