Question

Kingdom Fungi is most closely related to what other kingdom?

Answer 1

The fungi kingdom is placed independently in their own kingdom of equal rank with animal and plants, in fact, they are more closely related to animals than plants. Protists are Eukaryotes which means their cells have a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.

Answer 2

Answer: Kingdom fungi is closely related to Animal kingdom.

Explanation:

Fungi are group of eukaryotic organisms like moulds, yeast, slim moulds that have chitin in their cell walls which is a characteristics that distinquih them from plants, bacteria and protist. They are closely related to animals and distant related to plants and others. They have the following characteristics that distinguish them from others and these include; They are heterotrophic(can not produce food on their own), they have rigid cell walls,they absorb their food, they reproduce by spores and their cells contain nuclei with chromosomes.