• Dasus@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s not even genders, it’s a whole different type of reproduction. Sexual types.

      Mushrooms do not have male and female sexes; instead, they have mating types, a system of genetic factors that determines compatibility for sexual reproduction. Unlike animals, fungi don’t possess specialized organs for sex, but can have thousands of different mating types within a single species, allowing for broad reproductive compatibility and increasing genetic diversity.

      Mushrooms must look at us like we look at monocellular life.