Question

Both animals and fungi are heterotrophic. what distinguishes animal heterotrophy from fungal heterotrophy is that most animals derive their nutrition by ________. both animals and fungi are heterotrophic. what distinguishes animal heterotrophy from fungal heterotrophy is that most animals derive their nutrition by ________. ingesting materials using enzymes to digest their food consuming living, rather than dead, prey preying on animals

Answer 1

Both animals and fungi are heterotrophic. what distinguishes animal heterotrophy from fungal heterotrophy is that most animals derive their nutrition by ingesting materials.  

Fungi are heterotrophic organisms which feed by absorption. Their structures hyphae secrete digestive enzymes, which break down the substrate. Their nutrition is parasitic (obtaining food from the host) or saprobic (feeding on dead organic remains).
Animals use holozoic nutrition meaning that they eat their food whole. They processed the food via a special digestive system and this consists of 5 stages, ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation and egestion.