What Makes a ‘Fungus’ Different from a ‘Plant’?

Fungi and plants might look similar, but they're like cousins who eat different foods. Plants make their own food using sunlight, like a kitchen inside them. Fungi don’t do that, they eat other things, like a hungry animal in a forest. This means their cells are built differently too. Plants have green walls (chloroplasts) that help them cook food, but fungi don’t. Instead, they use special tools called hyphae to absorb nutrients from the ground or from decaying matter.