Why is fungi considered more closely related to animals than plants?

We don't have alteration of generations although fungi don't use PSN thats the only thing I can think ofWhy is fungi considered more closely related to animals than plants?
No. they're in a class by themselves. Somewhere I've heard that mushrooms are mutations of yeasts that were prevalent in the Ice Ages. I would think they go back before that.


A fungus can take on a lot of forms from one that feeds on animal material, living or dead, to one that is mobile feeding on rotten vegetation, such as a slime mold. They can be immense in size such as a really old mushroom mycelium (sp) which covers a few square miles to a single mold cell.Why is fungi considered more closely related to animals than plants?
Well that explains it. Most of my relatives were nothin' but fungi. Are you a fungi (fun guy) too?
Fungi are not capable of performing photosynthesis, so must get their nourishment from other sources. Many fungi absorb nutrients directly from t he soil. Many others feed on dead and decaying organisms. Still others feed on living organisms. Athlete's foot is a common fungus which feeds on a living host - you!


They also have chitinous cell walls rather than cellulose as found in plants.
This relatedness is based on the DNA sequences of the animal cells compared to fungal cells, plants and bacteria.