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Option 3 : Fungi
- Biosphere refers to the narrow zone between the lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere where life exists.
- The biosphere consists of living organisms both plants and animals.
- Here, the physical environment (lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere) interacts with each other and supports life.
- It is also known as the ecosphere
Components of an ecosystem:
Biotic Components:
- It includes producers, consumers and decomposers.
- All living things have a direct or indirect influence on other organisms in an environment.
- Example: plants, animals, humans, fungi, microorganisms etc.
Abiotic components:
- All the inorganic components of the ecosystem, non-living physical and chemical composition of nature are abiotic components.
- Example: land, stones, soil, phosphorus, protein, water, humus (organic waste), air etc.
- Fungi or fungus is a living organism which is found in the form of yeast moulds and mushrooms.
- It is a separate Kingdom of living things different from plants and animals.
Thus, fungi is not an abiotic component of the biosphere.
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