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Becky Barak
@BeckSamBar
Conservation scientist @chicagobotanic. Love: seeds, #scicomm, prairies, my kids, cats, @plantlovestory. She/her.
Oct 6, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
It finally happened!! Tonight at a dinner thing someone asked if mushrooms were plants and I was able to unravel the giant phylogenetic tree I've been carrying around for 2 years to tell them:

Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than to plants!! 🍄 Whoa, I was not expecting this response!! Here's an explainer on the topic: io9.gizmodo.com/5940434/why-ar…
Mushrooms are fungi - they don't make their own food through photosynthesis like plants do, they need to eat other organisms to survive.