Are mushrooms animals or fungus's. I thought they were a fungus but my freind tells me that they are nocturnal animals. Please help because if there animals I'm gonna FREAK OUT !
2006-10-23 23:12:17 · 41 answers · asked by offmihead 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Yes, mushrooms are animals. They run about during the night but stand still during the day in the hope that no-one will see them.
Thats why vegetarians never eat mushrooms, its cruel, especially those that are cages mushrooms and not free range ones. They don't kill them humanely you know ? They just rip them out of the ground, severing thier nervous systems and then they die a horrible, painful, agonising death. Next time you are in Sainsbury's, listen carefully and you can still hear some of them crying out.
Your friend is either no friend of yours or an idiot, you choose.
2006-10-23 23:22:56 · answer #1 · answered by Michael H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A mushroom is an above-ground fruiting body (that is, a spore-producing structure) of a fungus, having a shaft and a cap. By extension, it designates the entire fungus producing the fruiting body of such appearance, the former consisting of a network (called the mycelium) of filaments or hyphae. In a much broader sense, mushroom is applied to any visible fungus, or especially the fruiting body of any fungus, with the mycelium usually being hidden under bark, ground, rotten wood, leaves, etc. The technical term for the spore-producing structure of "true" mushrooms is the basidiocarp. The term "toadstool" is used typically to designate a basidiocarp that is poisonous to eat.
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2006-10-24 00:48:36 · answer #2 · answered by catzpaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fungus
2006-10-23 23:23:37 · answer #3 · answered by John H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mushroom is an above-ground fruiting body (that is, a spore-producing structure) of a fungus, having a shaft and a cap. By extension, it designates the entire fungus producing the fruiting body of such appearance, the former consisting of a network (called the mycelium) of filaments or hyphae. In a much broader sense, mushroom is applied to any visible fungus, or especially the fruiting body of any fungus, with the mycelium usually being hidden under bark, ground, rotten wood, leaves, etc. The technical term for the spore-producing structure of "true" mushrooms is the basidiocarp. The term "toadstool" is used typically to designate a basidiocarp that is poisonous to eat.
2006-10-23 23:20:45 · answer #4 · answered by eddovey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fungus
2006-10-23 23:19:41 · answer #5 · answered by jls1znv9999 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fungus
2006-10-23 23:19:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would depend on how many youve eaten. Sereiously though they are fungi. Fungi is the plural of fungus. A mushroom is an above-ground fruiting body (that is, a spore-producing structure) of a fungus, having a shaft and a cap.
2006-10-23 23:23:39 · answer #7 · answered by bestfunwithoutbatteries 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your friend is joking, if not then he's just a tw@! A mushroom is a fungus, as someone told me the other day it's the only thing that doesn't fall under any of the vegetable, animal, mineral categories.
2006-10-23 23:22:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fungus!
2006-10-23 23:20:58 · answer #9 · answered by Charmaine V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a fungus.
Just like flowers move and change in response to sunlight so do mushrooms... The difference is that flowers gravitate towards the sun but mushrooms tend to shy away from it.
The reason for this is that the spore ("mushroom seeds") are destroyed by sunlight. Mushrooms like to be well lit but not in direct sunlight.
2006-10-23 23:18:58 · answer #10 · answered by skunk_luv 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋