My daughter wants to know what the world's largest living organism is... I can't answer her question.?

Answer 1

The world's largest organism is a fungus in Oregon. This fungus stretches 3.5 miles (5.6 Km) across and covers an area as big as 1,665 football fields. It is about 2,400 years old, lives underground, and spreads slowly from tree to tree.

Answer 2

What is probably the largest living organism on earth has been discovered in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon. A fungus living three feet underground is estimated to cover 2,200 acres. After testing samples from various locations, scientists say it is all one organism.
One Thousand Football Fields

Officially known as Armillaria ostoyae, or the honey mushroom, the fungus is 3.5 miles across and takes up 1,665 football fields. The small mushrooms visible above ground are only the tip of the iceberg.

Experts estimate that the giant mushroom is at least 2,400 years old, but could be 7,200 years old.

Previously, the world's largest organism was another Armillaria ostoyae, which covers a mere 1,500 acres near Mt. Adams in Washington state.
A Web of Tentacles

Scientists became interested in that section of forest when trees began to die. The honey mushroom uses tentacles, called rhizomorphs, to take water and nutrients from roots, killing trees.

The process benefits the ecosystem by creating clearings where new plants grow. Animals, such as woodpeckers, live in the dead tree trunks. Mushrooms also recycle nutrients
Dry Climate Helps

The dry climate of eastern Oregon discourages competition from new growth, leaving space for mushrooms already established.
Genetically Closer to People

In other research, scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.

Moreover, while humans and most species are divided into only two sexes, mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes.

Answer 3

The world's largest living organism is the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia.

Answer 4

There is a dispute between what the largest organism is......

The Great Barrier Reef, which covers more than 345,000 square kilometers, is the world's largest living organism.

OR

Giant fungus is world's largest living organism. ... is World's Largest Organism. Mega mushroom expands in Oregon forest.

Answer 5

Animal is a female blue whale, the largest animal ever found on Earth.

Plant is more difficult. The largest single organism is probably a giant redwood tree. However, some fungi can spread for enormous disatnces underground.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

It is a whale. Definitely a whale because the Whale is the largest living thing, and an organism is a living thing.

Answer 8

I hope I'm not answering a homework question.....The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. it's the only living thing which can be seen from outer space.

Answer 9

the largest creature is the blue whale.

Answer 10

The Earth itself, if the hypothesis of Gaia is correct.