Tagged: taxonomy

Note: This is an archived post.  You can read the current version of the post here. This post begins to answer the age-old question, “What is a fungus?” Fungi are a monophyletic group—meaning that they arose from a single common ancestor—and therefore share a number of traits.  Everyone has their own list of important traits common to all fungi, and I have come up with one that agrees with as many as possible.