Talk:Plant Manipulation/@comment-24545104-20140214011342/@comment-24601679-20140228101924

@ Tsupaman: You keep telling us to read up on the subject, but it's like you haven't read it yourself. Classification history is not the same as evolution history. We changed its classification from plantae to fungi because it was later discovered that fungi were distinct from plants, despite a lot of shared traits. Fungi are weird in that sense, since they share features with other kingdoms as well. As the Fungus page on Wikipedia reads: "One major difference is that fungal cells have  cell walls that contain  chitin, unlike the cell walls of plants and some protists, which contain  cellulose, and unlike the cell walls of bacteria. These and other differences show that the fungi form a single group of related organisms, named the  Eumycota ( true fungi or Eumycetes), that share a  common ancestor (is a  monophyletic group)."

You can also read about thefungi evolution history if you want. But whatever you do, please don't claim fungi are plants, it's just outright wrong, despite what botanists in the 18th and 19th century thought.