Re:Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
by pfdietz on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:16AM
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Yeast are not bacteria. They are eukaryotes.
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I‘m thankful for nerds who make corrections so I can learn some interesting fact.
Re:Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
by victorcharlie on Thursday November 25, 2021 @12:03PM
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Actually, yeasts are unicellular fungus. I believe that fungus are the most important life-form in this planet by far.
Pretty cool, huh? :)
Fungi, like plants and animals, are eukaryotes. However, eukaryotes and bacteria occupy the same rung in the taxonomic divisions (they are domains), so it's the more appropriate correction. The third domain is prokaryotes.
My wikipedia fact checking tells me that the third domain is archaea which together with the bacteria are prokaryotes. Or did I read sth wrong?
Oh, sorry, you are correct. I remembered that archaea had gotten changes and misremembered them.
> unicellular fungus
Belongs under the Eurkaryote heading, no?
yes
That is pretty cool! Paul Stamets is worth mentioning here. One can find a ton of media presence, books and projects from him. Very interesting stuff!
Re:Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
by noisy_boy on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:43PM
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For a second I thought you were referring to Stamets on Star Trek. Stamets, mycellium... tribute or coincidence?
Re:Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
by thewakalix on Thursday November 25, 2021 @09:43PM
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> Stamets is inspired by a real-life mycologist of the same name.[1]
Thanks - just saw his wikipedia page - very interesting.
Re:Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
by dan_mctree on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:11PM
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>I believe that fungus are the most important life-form in this planet by far.
Would love to hear more about this!
Re:Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
by matheusmoreira on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:06PM
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I'm thankful for wikipedia which has probably taught me more biology than my professors ever did. So many detailed articles, and it's actually fun to read them because they contain so many details that never seem to get mentioned in school. The abundance of links lead to a fun exploration of the subject and a massive respect for nature and its designs.
Re:Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
by CogitoCogito on Thursday November 25, 2021 @04:00PM
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Well to be fair the poster was referring to starters for bread which contain natural populations of both yeast and bacteria. So really we should be thankful for both yeast and bacteria. :)
That said, just as the other poster I'm also thankful for pedants like yourself. This is a mistake I probably make myself all the time.