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realitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

TIL fungi (i.e mushrooms, yeast, mould) are more closely related to us humans than to plants

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TIL fungi (i.e mushrooms, yeast, mould) are more closely related to us humans than to plants

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realitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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Three Reasons Fungi Are Not Plants | ASM.org
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Fungi are more closely related to us than they are to plants. Yet, fungi have been grouped with plants historically, with an impact felt even today.

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/4212574

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Double-decker_trams on 2024-10-20 00:32:18+00:00.

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    Well that ain’t gonna stop this vegetarian from eating delicious shiitake mushrooms.

    In fact, I hope they enjoy the pain. They deserve suffering. They know what they did.

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      You can’t blame them. They had no choice. They had to do it

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        Oh I blame them. They will never get my forgiveness. I will not rest until I have done my part to rid the world of the shiitake menace via my digestive juices.

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          What did they do to you?!

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            They know.

            They know.

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              But they were young and needed the money!

              • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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                well they shouldn’t have mouthed off to my grandma then.

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    Not in terms of like, overall vibe.

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    These sources aren’t great. A book from 1969 is one of them. I would’ve assumed DNA sequencing had already confirmed which one our ancestry and genome is more closely related to.

    If we branched away from one 700 million years ago, and the other 800 million years ago, then it’s more like “potato potatoe”.

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      DNA sequencing is not necessary:

      There are major overlapping characteristics shared by fungi and animals that plants do not have, said John Walker, a professor at Appalachian State University who studies fungi.

      For example, both mushrooms and humans store carbohydrate energy as glycogen, while plants use starch to store energy. Both fungi and insects use the polysaccharide chitin to build cell walls, while plants use cellulose. And mushrooms, like humans, produce vitamin D when exposed to sunlight.

      https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/27/fact-check-mushrooms-share-more-dna-humans-than-plants/11339411002/

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        Was vitamin D and polysaccharide already a thing when fungi came to be?

        There’s new research that micorhiza was the first to settle on land, preparing the ground for plants, some 500 million years ago.

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    You maybe.

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      Look, we can’t all have been built by Dr. Soong in his lab on Omicron Theta.

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        And I would gladly give it up to be human

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    If you haven’t been there yet, OneZoom is fun to explore. I am continually surprised by what I find there going down some random branch.

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    More closely related to Ork Boyz. WAAAGHHHH

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    They are giant space pen**es

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      Every mushroom you eat is a delicious little fungus cock.

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    Fungi and animals form a clade called opisthokonta,

    it’s always the cladistics fuckers isn’t it

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