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Lesson: Chapter 13 — The Living World

13.1. Protista and Fungi 8 of 8

Question 8

What is a lichen?

The right answer is the one marked above.

A symbiotic association formed by a fungus together with an alga. That is two organisms, from two different kingdoms.

A lichen is not a single organism, so it belongs neatly to no kingdom at all — one of the places classification gets difficult.

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