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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by chasil on Saturday October 08, 2022 @07:42PM (#33137083)
...except we didn't evolve from plants.

While animals and plants share mitochondria, they do not share plastids (chloroplast, chromoplast, etc.).

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

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by austinjp on Saturday October 08, 2022 @08:17PM (#33137257)
"Invented by plants" does not necessitate "evolved from plants". Your TV doesn't contain mitochondria :)
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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by xbmcuser on Sunday October 09, 2022 @01:59AM (#33138591)
Well i think invented is probably the wrong word moulded is probably better when you consider the fact that trees could be hundreds of years old before humanity proliferated and destroyed so many forests in last 1-200 years. It is not out of the question that animals could have evolved to serve trees as a 2-300 year old tree could see 100 generations of an animal
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