what is the scientific difference between fungi and animals
Fungi have cell walls like a plant but instead of cellulose the have chitin for supportive structure. Fungi are not capable of independent movement like an animal, they are sessile like a plant. Fungal metabolisms can be aerobic (mushroom) or anaerobic (yeast ferment) but animals are only aerobic. Muticellular fungi exist as filamentous hyphae for most of their life forming the sexual fruiting bodies only when reproducing/dispersing.