“Be yourself” is terrible advice

Re:“Be yourself” is terrible advice by geomark on Friday April 19, 2019 @08:42PM (#19704140)

Totally off topic, but plants and fungi don't eat other life. Plants make their own food using waste products from animals. Fungi use dead and decaying matter for food.

Even more off topic, the only reason I feel the need to comment is my kid is prepping for a Singapore Science test and they seem to have a lot of questions about this stuff.

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Re:“Be yourself” is terrible advice by LoSboccacc on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:48PM (#19704355)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

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Re:“Be yourself” is terrible advice by geomark on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:09PM (#19704421)

That's interesting. I think I saw that on the YouTube channel called Ants Canada. So some fungi do kill living things.

Added: That means some of the answers on the sample Singapore Science tests are not really correct.

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Re:“Be yourself” is terrible advice by LoSboccacc on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:13PM (#19704428)

ah also these https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivorous_plant

in general blanket statement about the nature are going to always find corner cases

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