• Dasus@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    2 days 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.