Fungi Are More Like Animals Than Plants!

I was listening to Ö1 radio these days (Punkt eins: Glück, Gift und Geheimnisse) and learned something which I did not know before and which I probably wouldn't have believed if you told me about it.

Let me quote from the Wikipedia article for "Fungus": (on my own emphasis)

A fungus (plural: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from the other eukaryotic kingdoms, which by one traditional classification include Plantae, Animalia, Protozoa, and Chromista.
A characteristic that places fungi in a different kingdom from plants, bacteria, and some protists is chitin in their cell walls. Fungi, like animals, are heterotrophs; they acquire their food by absorbing dissolved molecules, typically by secreting digestive enzymes into their environment. Fungi do not photosynthesize.
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In the past, mycology was regarded as a branch of botany, although it is now known fungi are genetically more closely related to animals than to plants.

Wow, this blow my mind. Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants.

You never stop learning.