时差N小时 真菌知多少（在线收听）

Mushrooms are merely one of many types of fungi.

蘑菇只是众多真菌类型的其中之一。

Not all fungi grow in soil.

并不是所有的真菌都生长在土壤里面。

Mushrooms and other fungi do resemble plants in many ways, so much so that scientists long classified fungi plants, but they know better now.

蘑菇和其他的菌类在许多方面类似于植物，由此科学家长期以来将真菌归于植物类，但是现在，科学家们了解到更多的信息。

Where it truly counts, fungi differ from plants significantly.

真正重要的是，真菌很大程度上不同于植物。

One major difference lies in how they eat.

最大的在不同之处就在于他们如何吃东西。

Plants are characterized by their ability to make their own food, using chlorophyll, sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.

植物的特点在于他们使用叶绿素，阳光，水以及二氧化碳为自己制造食物的能力。

Fungi cannot make their own food. They have to consume other living or once living organisms.

真菌不能为自己制造食物。他们必须食用活着的或者已经死去的生物。

Fungi aren't animals either, but for what it's worth, some scientists consider them more akin to animals than plants.

同样，真菌也不是动物，但是从其价值方面考虑，科学家们认为他更接近于动物而不是植物。

It's even thought that fungi and animals may share a similar single-celled ancestor.

甚至于认为真菌和动物有相似的单细胞类祖先。

A major defining difference between the two kingdoms, however, is that while fungi do indeed have to consume other material, they don't have stomachs like animals.

最主要的区别在于尽管真菌要食用其他的物质，但是它不像动物一样有胃。

Fungi have special cells that allow them to absorb their food.

真菌有特殊的细胞帮助他们吸收食物。