Eli5: what makes fungi so fundamentally different from plants and animals, they get their own category?

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I mean, the animal part seems intuitive, however I’d like to hear the whole story…

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They have a fundamentally different structure to their cell walls based on chitin instead of cellulose.

They do not have any capability of generating chemical energy from sunlight via chloroplasts. So, they are consumers rather than producers.

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