What are the dietary features of lichens?

Lichens, as you know, are unique in their structure, they consist of algae and fungi. Therefore, their nutrition is represented by two opposite types, autotrophic (algae) and heterotrophic (fungi) and is carried out in this way: algae, in the process of photosynthesis, form organic substances that are necessary for fungi to live. Fungal hyphae absorb water with dissolved minerals, which are necessary for algae to carry out photosynthesis.



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