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Fungi were once grouped with the kingdom plantae, whoever scientists decided that Fungi were too fundamentally different from plants because they lacked chloroplast and chlorophyll, they had no stems or roots, and Fungi are decomposers not producers. so scientists gave Fungi their own kingdom.

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