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Fungi and animals form a clade called opisthokonta,
it's always the cladistics fuckers isn't it
Not in terms of like, overall vibe.
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".
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.
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.
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.
You can't blame them. They had no choice. They had to do it
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.
What did they do to you?!
They know.
They know.
But they were young and needed the money!
well they shouldn't have mouthed off to my grandma then.
Especially that fun guy
You maybe.
Look, we can't all have been built by Dr. Soong in his lab on Omicron Theta.
And I would gladly give it up to be human
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.
More closely related to Ork Boyz. WAAAGHHHH
They are giant space pen**es
Every mushroom you eat is a delicious little fungus cock.
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2024
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