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   From: qsx1@supahat.com   
      
   "Sean Carroll"  wrote in message   
   news:dlAVg.23904$rg1.19844@dukeread01...   
   > Spencer Spindrift wrote:   
   >> "Sean Carroll"  wrote in message   
   >   
   >>>True ... but fungi are actually more closely related to animals than to   
   >>>plants, according to most current theories.   
   >   
   >> They are geneticaly but they have no brain.   
   >   
   > Neither do sponges, corals, or many other primitive animals. Animals are   
   > not defined by their brain, they're defined by being multicellular (like   
   > plants and fungi), heterotrophic (unlike plants) and lacking cell walls   
   > (unlike fungi). I don't see what having or lacking a brain has to do with   
   > it at all.   
   >   
   > I was just being picky because it's a pet peeve for me, people referring   
   > to fungi as 'plants' when they're not. I bitch about things like that. It   
   > may make me annoying, but whatchagonnado?   
      
   Slime mold is interesting. It can live as single cells or join together as   
   one organism to move around.   
      
   Ferns are primitive plants but their gametes find water and swim from one   
   plant to another for sexual reproduction.   
      
   A sponge can be passed thru a sieve and re-assemble itsself on the other   
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