{"id":159177,"date":"2023-02-27T21:25:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T03:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/fact-check-mushrooms-share-more-dna-with-humans-than-plants"},"modified":"2023-02-27T21:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T03:25:53","slug":"fact-check-mushrooms-share-more-dna-with-humans-than-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/fact-check-mushrooms-share-more-dna-with-humans-than-plants","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Mushrooms share more DNA with humans than plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fact-check-mushrooms-share-more-dna-with-humans-than-plants2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants, said <a href=https:\/\/www.davis.wvu.edu\/faculty-staff\/directory\/matthew-kasson target=_blank rel=noopener data-t-l=:b|e|k|u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Matt Kasson<\/a>, an associate professor of mycology at West Virginia University.<\/p>\n<p>The first hypotheses about the relationship between fungi and animals emerged in the 1950s, he said. Scientists were able to test and confirm these suspicions years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants, said Matt Kasson, an associate professor of mycology at West Virginia University. The first hypotheses about the relationship between fungi and animals emerged in the 1950s, he said. Scientists were able to test and confirm these suspicions years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}