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I wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet. (slrpnk.net)
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It was only in 1969 (nice) that fungi officially became its own separate kingdom.

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[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's just the explanation of eukarya which lists animalia within the same super-group as fungi and plants being in a different one altogether. Any relationship with plants to humans (which are within animalia) or mushrooms could be a bit subjective.

Yes, fungi are closer to humans than plants. If you look at the reproductive cycle of all three though, plants have a closer amount of "sexes" to humans. Plants generally having "1" or 2 sexes; humans having 2. Fungi though...