Consider the following statements : 1. Some mushrooms have medicinal properties. 2. Some mushrooms have psychoactive properties. 3. Some mushrooms have insecticidal properties. 4. Some mushrooms have bioluminescent properties. How many of the above statements are correct?

Defines fungi (which include mushrooms) as a distinct biological group and lists mushrooms as familiar examples of saprophytic fungi.

A student can treat mushrooms as a biological source similar to plants/organisms that are surveyed for useful compounds and therefore ask whether some species yield medicinal compounds.

Explicitly lists fungi (bread moulds, yeast, mushrooms) as examples, connecting mushrooms to other well-studied microbes/organisms.

Knowing mushrooms are studied alongside other fungi, a student could look for known bioactive products from fungi (analogy with antibiotics from molds) to test the claim.

Suggests practical human interaction with mushrooms (microscopic study and cultivation), implying they are of economic/biological interest.

Because mushrooms are cultivated and examined, a student could investigate those cultivated species for traditional or modern medicinal uses.

Gives a pattern that many plant parts are used as raw materials for medicines and lists many species with medicinal roles.

Using the general rule that diverse organisms (plants) provide medicines, a student could extend the search to other organism groups such as fungi (mushrooms) for analogous uses.

Provides multiple concrete examples of widely used medicinal species and their properties, illustrating the common practice of deriving medicines from non-animal organisms.

By analogy with listed medicinal plants, a student could check ethnobotanical or pharmacological sources to see if mushrooms are similarly used in traditional/local medicine.