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Using classification, fungi might be thought to be moreclosely related to plants, but according to classification, fungiand animals are more closely related.•Natural / artificial• Artificial / natural• Phylogenetic / artificial• Scientific / artificial

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Computational phylogenetics comparing eukaryotes revealed that fungi are more closely related to us than to plants. Fungi and animals form a clade called opisthokonta, which is named after a single, posterior flagellum present in their last common ancestor.

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