I wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.
I wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.
It was only in 1969 (nice) that fungi officially became its own separate kingdom.
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It's not a plant or an animal, but a secret third thing.
They're
fungifun guys.Plants are closer to humans than the mushrooms.
You sure about that, boss? http://tolweb.org/Eukaryotes
That's just the explanation of eukarya which lists animalia within the same super-group as fungi and plants being in a different one altogether. Any relationship with plants to humans (which are within animalia) or mushrooms could be a bit subjective.
Yes, fungi are closer to humans than plants. If you look at the reproductive cycle of all three though, plants have a closer amount of "sexes" to humans. Plants generally having "1" or 2 sexes; humans having 2. Fungi though...
Scratch that. Reverse it. And on we go
Mushrooms are actually aliens