Three truths
- Timed
- Began about 900 million years ago · the last 21% of life's story
- Named
- ≈140,000 named living species · 8.4% of all named
- Weighed
- ≈12 Gt C · 2.2% of all life's carbon
Eukaryotes · fungi · kingdom
Fungi
Living · roughly 140,000 described species
The date or placement of this group is still debated.
Organisms such as moulds, yeasts and mushrooms. They feed by absorbing nutrients, and they are more closely related to animals than to plants.
Fungi are closer relatives of animals than of plants.
Key characteristics
- Cell walls contain chitin
- Absorb food from their surroundings
- Usually grow as networks of threads called hyphae
- Branched off
- About 1.0 billion years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Holomycota
Child lineages
Classification
Sources
- Fungus (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia
- TimeTree: the timescale of life · TimeTree
- Open Tree of Life · Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project · Tree of Life Web Project