What is Fungus?
{{Automatic taxobox | name=Fungi | fossil_range=Lower [[Devonian]]–[[Holocene|Present]] <br/>410 [[mya (unit)|mya]]{{ndash}}present; earliest=[[Vendian]] | image=Fungi_collage.jpg | image_upright=1.3 | image_caption=Clockwise from top left: {{plainlist| *''[[Amanita muscaria]]'', a basidiomycete; *''[[Sarcoscypha coccinea]]'', an ascomycete; *bread covered in [[mold]]; *a [[Chytridiomycota|chytrid]]; *an ''[[Aspergillus]]'' [[conidiophore]]. }} | image_alt=A collage of five fungi (clockwise from top-left): a mushroom with a flat, red top with white-spots, and a white stem growing on the ground; a red cup-shaped fungus growing on wood; a stack of green and white moldy bread slices on a plate; a microscopic, spherical grey semitransparent cell, with a smaller spherical cell beside it; a microscopic view of an elongated cellular structure shaped like a microphone, attached to the larger end is a number of smaller roughly circular elements that together form a mass around it | display_parents=3 | taxon=Fungi | subdivision_ranks=Subkingdoms/Phyla/Subphyla | subdivision = : [[Blastocladiomycota]] : [[Chytridiomycota]] : [[Glomeromycota]] : [[Microsporidia]] : [[Neocallimastigomycota]] [[Dikarya]] (inc. [[Deuteromycota]]) : [[Ascomycota]] : [[Basidiomycota]] Subphyla ''[[incertae sedis]]'' : [[Entomophthoromycotina]] : [[Kickxellomycotina]] : [[Mucoromycotina]] : [[Zoopagomycotina]] }} A '''fungus''' (plural: '''fungi''') is a type of living organism that includes [[yeast]]s, [[mould|mold]]s, [[mushroom]]s and others. Fungi are a category of organism as large and varied as the [[animal]]s or [[plant]]s. Fungi, animals and plants are each [[Kingdom (biology)|Kingdoms]] of life.<ref>Jennings D.H. & Lysek G. 1996. ''Fungal biology: understanding the fungal lifestyle''. Guildford, UK: Bios Scientific Publishers . ISBN 978-1-85996-150-6</ref><ref>Kirk P.M. ''et al'' 2008. ''Dictionary of the fungi'', 10th ed. Wallingford, UK: CAB. ISBN 0-85199-826-7</ref> Historically people thought fungi were most like plants, even call