The best answer among the following choices to fill in the blank would be A).
Answer:
Fungi are more closely related to animals than they are to plants.
Explanation:
A fungus (plural: fungi) is a kind of living organism: yeasts, moulds and mushrooms are types of fungi. The fungi are a separate kingdom of living things, different from animals and plants. Fungi have cells with nuclei. Their cell walls contain chitin, unlike the cell walls of plants, which contain cellulose.
