A fungus is a special type of microbe – it doesn’t make its own food from the sun like plants, instead it gets its food from dead and decaying plants and animals.  You find fungi in damp, warm places but also in the air, soil, water, on plants and in you!  Most fungi aren’t dangerous; in fact most people eat fungi like mushrooms and yeast every day. 

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