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Analysis of the sequences of several genes suggests that the lineages leading to animals and fungi may have diverged around 965 million years ago. (i found this sentence by Google on a page from an unknown scientific journal, unfortunately not the entire article was there, even not the year, but looked rather modern :)
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How fungi similar to animals?
Fungi and animals are not similar in very many ways. One similarity does stand out, and that is the fact that both animals and fungi have to take in food from outside sources.
How many kingdom that organisms are classified?
animals, fungi and plants.
Are any Fungi extinct?
Yes of course many species of Fungi have gone extinct, as have many species of Plants, Animals, etc.
Which polysaccharide is an important component in the structure of many animals and fungi?
chitin
How many kindoms of organisms are there?
6. They are: animals, plants, protists, fungi, archaebacteria, and eubacteria.
How many different kindoms of organisms are there?
6. They are: animals, plants, protists, fungi, archaebacteria, and eubacteria.
How do you use the word diverge in a sentence?
We agree on so many things until it comes to politics, there our opinions really diverge.
Are fungi plants or animals?
They are of their own kingdom; Fungi.They generally are decomposers, not photosynthesizers.Some "fungi" are difficult to classify and have been classified as fungi because they have more similarities with fungi than actual plants or other life-forms.It is a life-form that is widely researched and some specimens tickle many a scientist brain as to where they actually belong.This middle paragraph seems to confuse Fungi with Protista. " Scientists brains are not tickled " as to where Fungi belong as they are all Eumycota. The only dispute over classification is within the group Fungi as molecular genetics has challenged some taxonomy that classified Fungi physically. Fungi are not plants, animals or protists.
Are plants animals and fungi multicellular?
The overriding relationship here is that all these organisms are eukaryote. Membrane bound nucleus and many membrane bound organelles.
Fungi plants and animals are what?
fungi is niether animal nor plant, it have it's own kingdom called kingdom fungi, previously it was considered as plant because of the presence of cell wall. but the cell wall of fungus isn't made up of cellulose instead it is made up of chitin. so it is not animal or plant.
How many kingdoms are there in the modern classification system?
5: kingdom protista (protists) kingdom Fungi (Fungi) kingdom plantae (plants) kingdom animalia (animals) kingdom monera (bacteria)
What sea animals eat fungi?
None known to humans. As of yet, no species of fungi which can whether an aquatic medium has been discovered. Because they lack cell walls, they might easily lyse due to high osmotic pressure.
