• Heydo@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Fun fact, humans share more DNA with fungi than they do with plants. We share nearly 50% of our DNA with fungi.

    Plus mushrooms are the sex organs of the mycelium organism. Just an extra fun fact for free there.

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      4 months ago

      It’s my understanding that fungi came around rather late in the game. Long after animals and plants both.

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        The earliest fungi evolved approximately 1.5 billion years ago, while green algae, the earliest plant, only evolved ~1 billion years ago. Animalia is significantly newer.