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Life on earth could not exist without fungi. The Fungi Kingdom has been on earth since about 1,500 million years ago.
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Why are fungus like protists not members of the kingdom fungi?
plants contain cellulose in their cell wall while fungi contains chitin as a major component of its cell wall.Besides fungi are absorptive heterotrophs while plants are photosynthetic autotrophs.fungi lacks centrioles and contains chitin in its cell wall(as described earlier) but certain protists have centrioles and produce cellulose in their cell wall.some protists also contain some pigments like Chl.a Chl.b caroteins etc while fungi does not.Due to these reasons Fungi has separate kingdom.
What defining features are missing that prevent fungi from being included in thae plant kingdom?
One requirement for belonging to the plant kingdom is to have a cell wall made of cellulose. The cell wall of fungi is made of chitin. Most importantly, fungi lack chloroplasts and chlorophyll. Therefore, fungi do not perform photosynthesis like plants.Primarily because it is not an autotroph, it can not make its own food as plants do and so is a herterotroph.Also, it does not reproduce by seeds.Fungi have cell walls composed of chitin instead of cellulose (usually). Fungi also lack chloroplasts and are therefore unable to perform photosynthesis. Fungi use the AAA pathway to synthesize lysine instead of the DAP pathway used by plants. Plants have multiple flagella on their motile spores while fungi only have one. The closing evidence are molecular phylogenies, which pretty consistently group fungi with animals on the tree of life.Fungi are no longer classified as a type of plant. There were first considered part of the plant kingdom since fungi have many similarities to plants such as how they often are stationary and they both have cell walls. Now, fungi are known to actually more closely related to animals than to plants and are now classified in their own kingdom.Fungi are not plants.The part of the fungus that we see is only the "fruit" of the organism. The living body of the fungus is a mycelium made out of a web of tiny filaments called hyphae. The mycelium is usually hidden in the soil, in wood, or another food source.Most fungi build their cell walls out of chitin. This is the same material as the hard outer shells of insects and other arthropods. Plants do not make chitin.Fungi were previously included in the plant kingdom, but are now seen to be more closely related to animals. Unlike embryophytes and algae which are generally photosynthetic, fungi are often saprotrophs: obtaining food by breaking down and absorbing surrounding materials. Most fungi are formed by microscopic structures called hyphae, which may or may not be divided into cells but contain eukaryotic nuclei. Fruiting bodies, of which mushrooms are most familiar, are the reproductive structures of fungi. They are not related to any of the photosynthetic groups, but are close relatives of animals. Therefore, the fungi are in a kingdom of their own.Fungi aren't plants for many reasons. The two main ones I can think of are;Fungi lack the multi-cellular nature of most plants. They are unicellular organisms, which often form long tendrils called mycelia, which allow the fungi to spread out before sporulating.Fungi have a cell wall made of a protein called chitin, as oppose to the cellulose (carbohydrate) cell wall of plants.
How big are fungi?
pending on the type of fungi, the smaller fungi cant be seen with the eye but larger fungi such as mushrooms can be. pending on the type of fungi, the smaller fungi cant be seen with the eye but larger fungi such as mushrooms can be.
Why is a mushroom neither a plant or animal?
Mushrooms are in the kingdom fungi. Fungi are immobile and have cell walls like plants, but do not carry out photosynthesis and so must obtain all energy and nutrients from other sources. Additionally, the cell walls of fungi are made of chitin while those of plants are made of cellulose. Fungal cells can take the form of single-celled yeast or long, multicellular threads called hyphae, such as those that make up mushrooms. Fungal cells will sometimes contain multiple nuclei, a characteristic never found in plants or animals.
What are the 5 groups of Living Things?
What are the five large groups that living things can be classified into? In: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/2608, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/2403[What_are_the_five_large_groups_that_living_things_can_be_classified_into]More correctly than saying all living things, you could say all eukaryotes (see diagram below). This is called the five-kingdom system of classification. I'm in the Taxonomicon at the moment and I copied this from there. I've used it for assignments before and it is very detailed. I love it.www.taxonomy.nl - the Taxonomicon.edit: The five kingdom system is not often used anymore in academia. This is because the monera kingdom has been eliminated and put into two domains (above the kingdom level) Bacteria and Archaea. I have edited the information below to show this change.Biota (all living things) (viruses are NOT living)- domain Bacteria- domain Archaea- domain Eukarya - for expansion see belowEukarya- Kingdom Animalia- Kingdom Plantae- Kingdom Protista- Kingdom Fungi-Basically:-Animal Kingdom -- this group is a very large group. It consists of both invertebrates and vertebrates. The groups within the invertebrates include: echinodermata (sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers), arthropods (insects, arachnids, and crustaceans), nematodes (roundworms) molluscs (squid, snails, clams and other bivalves with mantles), annelida (segmented worms(earth worms, leeches, etc), nemartea (ribbon worms), platyhelminthes (flat worms) Rotifera (radial symmetrical), Acoleomorpha, Cnidaria (jelly fish, corals, sea anemones, hydras) and finally porifera (sponges, and other filter feeders). The vertebrates include Agnatha (jawless fishes such as lampreys), Condrichythyes (cartilagenous fish such as sharks), Osteichythes (ones like halibut), Amphibia (amphibians (toads for example), Repitilia (snakes, alligators for example), Aves (birds), and mammals (marsupials, rodents, felines, canines, etc)-Plant Kingdom includes a fairly big group of plants as well. Some of the plants or groups of plants that are within this group are bryophytes (mosses and lichens), liverwort, gymnosperms (conifers, decidious and other trees), angiosperms (flowering plants), Pteridophyta (ferns). These are just a few of the examples in this category. It also includes all of the algae that have pigments such as chlorophyll.-Protist Kingdom include other eukaryotic groups. These ones are examples such as plant like algaes (that don't carry the pigment chlorophyll), these may include brown and red algae, and animal like algaes and there are also ones that are mobile such as paramecium and amoeba, and then spores for example. Flagellates with long flagella e.g., Euglena Amoeboids with transient pseudopodia e.g., Amoeba Ciliates with multiple, short cilia e.g., Paramecium Sporozoa non-mobile parasites; some can form spores e.g., Toxoplasma-Fungi Kingdom this kingdom is known for decomposers. The popular group within fungi are mushrooms and other abiotic proerties within the environment that will work on the nitrogenous cycle.First answer by User:LauraFrog. Last edit by User:Cat3120. Contributor http://wiki.answers.com/help/trust_points
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How long have you been on earth?
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