Fungi - Biology EncyclopediaFungi Photo by: Dmitry KnorreFungi are eukaryotic organisms distinct from plants and animals and members of several other smaller kingdoms. Common fungi include mushrooms, conks, corals, jellies, puffballs, stinkhorns, morels, cups, truffles, lichens, yeasts, rusts, smuts...
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Along with the increase in the number of published plant genomes, there is a need for an efficient system to retrieve various kinds of genome-related information from many plant species across plant kingdoms. Various plant databases have been developed, but no public database covers both genomic ...
The mitochondria arose from an endosymbiotic (alphaproteo-like) bacterium during early eukaryotic evolution [1,2]. Excluding iterative instances of primary endosymbioses (as proposed in [3]), we can conclude that the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA), living about 1.8 billion years ago, cont...
Zoology is the study of animal life. Zoo which is greek for animal and logos greek for study. Biology is the study of life that includes all living things. Animals, plants, bacteria, fungi, protist and archaebacteria are all kingdoms of the discipline biology. Within the discipline of ...
Cells are the basic fundamental unit of life and living organisms are composed of cells. A collection or group of cells forms a tissue that is found in the body of a living organism.Answer and Explanation: The four different types of tissue are connective tis...
Whatever the adaptedness of the phenotype, each of the many types of plasticity demonstrates how a given genotype will express itself differently in different environmental conditions—a field of biology referred to as the study of epigenetics. The ways in which epigenetic mechanisms may have evolved...
These methods are very successful for phylogenetic studies of gene/protein families or superfamilies and even for the phylogenies of complete genomes when the evolutionary divergence is not too great. Alignment-free methods are rarely used in biology, although they can be quite successful in ...
Owing to its exceptional strength and its ability to control cell shape, the extracellular matrix of eubacteria, algae, fungi, and plants is called the cell wall. The composition of cell walls varies widely among these kingdoms and the species within them, but the central functions are similar...
But Protista according to this early definition lumped together some very different types of organisms. In 1937, French marine biologist Edouard Chatton made an enormous contribution to biology by introducing the terms prokaryote and eukaryote. The prokaryotes lack nuclei; eukaryotes have nuclei as ...