The Evil of Fungi

Fungi are more closely related to animals than they are plants. They can produce stalks with a poisonous droplet at the top, which is splitting the tracks like a beacon attracts nematodes. But perhaps the weirdest ones I find are the ones that they produce mobile cells, little swimming cells. And when they get to a nematode, they stick to it, and they harp-oon it with a specialised kind of cell called a gun cell. So there's lots of ways to do it.

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