Read the following excerpt and answer the question: Scientists often refer to mushrooms as the "dark matter of biology" because we don't know much about them. Mushrooms are not plants
because they have no chlorophyll and cannot make their own food. They are actually fungi and absorb nutrients from their surrounding
environments, and they can even thrive at the bottom of the ocean or in the middle of a desert!
Use your own words to summarize why mushrooms and plants differ in their needs to use radiant energy from the sun.