The pressurized seeds and spores have the ability to spread, helping the organism reproduce. In plants, it allows them to reduce competition by flinging the seeds far away so that their offspring don’t compete for resources. For the fungus, it allows the parent to fling the spores into the grass so that when the horse eats them, the life cycle of the fungus continues.
<span>The green plant would be able to photosynthesize, but the fungi wouldn’t. The plants would have cellulose in their cell walls, while the fungi would have chitin.</span>
