In the politics of some countries, a minority is an ethnic group that is recognized as such by respective laws of its country and therefore has some rights that other groups lack.n some places, subordinate ethnic groups may constitute a numerical majority, such as Blacks in South Africa under apartheid. In addition to the traditional (longtime resident) minorities they may be migrant, indigenous or landless nomadic communities.
Myth 5: Cancer is a fungus â and sodium bicarbonate is the cure. This âtheoryâ comes from the not-very-observant observation that âcancer is always whiteâ. One obvious problem with this idea â apart from the fact that cancer cells are clearly not fungal in origin â is that cancer isnât always white. Some tumours are.
The discipline of biology devoted to the study of fungi is known as mycology (from the Greek Î¼ÏÎºÎ·Ï, mukÄs, meaning fungus). In the past, mycology was regarded as a branch of botany; today it is a separate kingdom in biological taxonomy. With plants: Fungi have a cell wall and vacuoles. 2  They reproduce by both sexual and asexual means, and like basal plant groups (such as ferns and mosses) produce spores. 3  Similar to mosses and algae, fungi typically have haploid nuclei.