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Fungi decompose the bodies of dead animals and convert them into simple carbon compounds. These substances easily mix with air, water and soil from where they are again absorbed by plants and enter the food chain. Some fungi living in symbiotic association with plants help to absorb water and inorganic compounds like nitrate and phosphate. Fungi are also used to derive antibiotics like penicillin which are useful to animals. Ants grow fungi in their anthill and obtain food from it. Some species of wasps and insects lay their eggs in the fungal bodies growing on trees, thus ensuring a food supply for their larvae.