Characteristic of Fungi

They are Eukaryotes and have heterotrophic nutrition.
They have no chlorophyll.
They feed by absorbing nutrients from dead or living materials of others.
They have parasitic, saprobic or symbiotic modes of nutrition.
They have a rigid cell wall generally made up of chitin. Chitin contains nitrogen and polysaccharide.
Their body is in the form of thread - like structures called
mycelia (singular-mycelium). Each thread - like fine filament is called hyphae (mass of hyphae produce mycelium).
They are non - motile. They reproduce by both sexual and asexual means. Asexually by spore formation and budding and sexually by conjugation.