Fungus
A fungus (/ˈfʌŋɡəs/; plural: fungi[3] or funguses[4]) is a member o a muckle group o eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as baurms an moulds, as well as the mair familiar mushruims. These organisms are clessifee'd as a kinrick, Fungi, which is separate frae plants, animals, protists an bacteria. Ane major difference is that fungal cells hae cell walls that contain chitin, unlik the cell waws o plants an some protists, which contain cellulose, an unlik the cell waws o bacteria. These an ither differences shaw that the fungi furm a single group o relatit organisms, named the Eumycota (true fungi or Eumycetes), that share a common auncestor (is a monophyletic group). This fungal group is distinct frae the structurally seemilar myxomycetes (slime moulds) an oomycetes (watter moulds). The discipline o biology devotit tae the study o fungi is kent as mycology (frae the Greek μύκης, mukēs, meanin "fungus"). Mycology haes eften been regardit as a branch o botany, even tho it is a separate kinrick in biological taxonomy. Genetic studies hae shawn that fungi are mair closely relatit tae ainimals than tae plants.
| Fungi | |
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Clockwise frae tap left:
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Scientific classification 
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| (unranked): | Opisthokonta |
| (unranked): | Holomycota |
| (unranked): | Zoosporia |
| Kinrick: | Fungi (L.) R.T.Moore[1] |
| Subkingdoms/Phyla/Subphyla[2] | |
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Dikarya (inc. Deuteromycota) Subphyla incertae sedis | |
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ Moore RT (1980). "Taxonomic proposals for the classification of marine yeasts and other yeast-like fungi including the smuts". Botanica Marina. 23: 361–373.
- ↑ The clessification seestem presentit here is based on the 2007 phylogenetic study bi Hibbett et al.
- ↑
i/ˈfʌndʒaɪ/ or i/ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/
- ↑ "Fungus". Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved 26 Februar 2011.
