Fungi - It's a plant… It's an animal… It's a…
People once classified fungi as part of the plant kingdom. Years later they thought these creatures were part of the animal kingdom. As scientists
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- The fungi Phytophthora infestans caused Ireland's great potato famine of the 1800s, which rapidly spread through crops and caused widespread famine.
- Hieroglyphics suggest that ancient Egyptians were using yeast to produce alcoholic beverages and to leaven bread over 5,000 years ago.
- The word pencil comes from the mold penicillium, a Latin name given for its brushlike shape. The name fit because early pencils were a small brush used by artists.
- In 2003, scientists completed unraveling the genome of a bread mold, an organism that researchers have long studied. The mold has approximately 10,000 genes—only about a third fewer than...
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