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Re:Space station mold survives 200 times the radiation dose ... by ejolto on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @07:36AM (#20343347)
Fungi are not plants though. Fungi are actually more closely related to animals than plants [1][2]. Plants not getting cancer is irrelevant when talking about cancer rate in mold/fungi.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthokont [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote

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