Fungi Have Sex - Here's How, and Why It Matters

Sex is an essential part of life. You, me and almost every other living organism on this planet are only here because two individuals got together at some point in the past to have their genes represented in the next generation. Fungi can utilise one or more of six different sexual strategies, writes Andi Wilson for The Conversation Africa.

Mushrooms on the forest floor.

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