Q: Parasitic fungi often cause illness and may eventually do what to their hosts?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Parasitic fungi often cause illness and may eventually kill their host. They are the major cause of disease in agricultural plants. Fungi also parasitize animals, such as the insect pictured in Figure below . Fungi even parasitize humans. Did you ever have athelete’s foot? If so, you were the host of a parasitic fungus.

 Choices:

- reproduce with them

- mutate them

- become them

- kill them


A:
kill them