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Fungus

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How Are Fungi Important In Nature? Raven St. Jean Fungi play a major role in both nature and society in the sense that they are a huge resource for many things, like medicine. Fungi serve a purpose to the earth, humans, and many animals and plants. First, fungi are very beneficial to life on earth by recycling material. Without bacteria and fungi, gardening plants would be impossible. They lock up plant nutrients until they?re needed and can be used by the plants. This act reduces leeching of vital nutrients from the soil and makes a great home to plants. They also retain water in the soil for plants. The greatest deed that fungi do is act as a decomposer and break down dead matter into components that other plants and animals can eat.

evolution of fungi

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1. There are many possible hypotheses of how fungi originally evolved. Ranging from common ancestry of plants, to diverging as an entirely separate species have all been studied. One of the most surprising facts is that fungi is actually more similar to animals than that of plant cells. Containing similar cytoplasmic organelles and a like structure of DNA have caused speculation. The present theory is that some 965 million years ago a common ancestor of both fungi and animals diverged into the different algae and single celled organisms that we now know of today. Fungi would continue to evolve until their present fruiting bodies known today which occurred around 150 million years ago.

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1. There are many possible hypotheses of how fungi originally evolved. Ranging from common ancestry of plants, to diverging as an entirely separate species have all been studied. One of the most surprising facts is that fungi is actually more similar to animals than that of plant cells. Containing similar cytoplasmic organelles and a like structure of DNA have caused speculation. The present theory is that some 965 million years ago a common ancestor of both fungi and animals diverged into the different algae and single celled organisms that we now know of today. Fungi would continue to evolve until their present fruiting bodies known today which occurred around 150 million years ago.

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1. There are many possible hypotheses of how fungi originally evolved. Ranging from common ancestry of plants, to diverging as an entirely separate species have all been studied. One of the most surprising facts is that fungi is actually more similar to animals than that of plant cells. Containing similar cytoplasmic organelles and a like structure of DNA have caused speculation. The present theory is that some 965 million years ago a common ancestor of both fungi and animals diverged into the different algae and single celled organisms that we now know of today. Fungi would continue to evolve until their present fruiting bodies known today which occurred around 150 million years ago.
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