..mushrooms.
@flaming_topaz (11)
Philippines
December 11, 2007 8:45pm CST
..who knows here why mushrooms are classified as ANIMALS and not as plants???hehe..
3 responses
@betsyraeduke (2670)
• United States
12 Dec 07
What? Really? I did not know that. I thought they were vegetables. Why are they considered animals?
@thedogshrink (1266)
• United States
15 Dec 07
I thought they were a fungus?! But then I went to school so long ago, it might have changed 10 times since I learned it!
It seems they are always changing a classification -- or a planet's name or even that it is a planet, these days.
OK, so why/when did they become animals -- and what will this mean to vegans?
@pilbara (1436)
• Australia
12 Dec 07
Mushrooms are not classified as plants or animals.
It is true that they are more biologically similar to animal cells than to plant cells, they don't have chloroplasts for example.
However in modern taxonomy iologists generally classify organisms into one of 6 kingdoms which are roughly:
1) Eubacteria: most bacteria
2) Archaebacteria: unusual bacteria
3) Fungi: Fungi
4) Plantae: plants
5) Animalia: animals
6) Protista: eukaryotic cells that aren't fungi, plants or animals e.g protozoa
btw eukaryotes are cells with a membrane bound nucleus and organelles and prokaryotic cells like a membrane bound nucleus and membrane bound organelles.
