Fungi: Death Becomes Them - CrashCourse Biology #39
Death is what fungi are all about. By feasting on the deceased remains of almost all organisms on the planet, converting the organic matter back into soil from ...
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Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of fungi (fuhn-gahy), or fungi (fuhn-jahy). Both are acceptable pronunciations. But I say fungi because it's fungus. Not fun-jus. Though fun-jus is also fun to say. Fungi are a little bit like plants, and more like animals than you might think. They diverged from protists about a billion years ago, and today scientists estimate that there are about 1.5 million species of Fungi on the earth, though in a formal, taxonomic way, we only know about 100,000 or so of them. And those that we have met are wonderful, weird, and, in some cases, deadly. And the fact is, death is pretty much what fungi are all about. Sure, there are the fun fungi, like the single-celled Saccharomyces, also known as yeast. Without them, we wouldn't have beer, win...
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Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of fungi (fuhn-gahy), or fungi (fuhn-jahy). Both are acceptable pronunciations. But I say fungi because it's fungus. Not fun-jus. Though fun-jus is also fun to say. Fungi are a little bit like plants, and more like animals than you might think. They diverged from protists about a billion years ago, and today scientists estimate that there are about 1.5 million species of Fungi on the earth, though in a formal, taxonomic way, we only know about 100,000 or so of them. And those that we have met are wonderful, weird, and, in some cases, deadly. And the fact is, death is pretty much what fungi are all about. Sure, there are the fun fungi, like the single-celled Saccharomyces, also known as yeast. Without them, we wouldn't have beer, win...
