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Serial Killing For Fun and Profit - FLESHSIMULATOR
Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge - Paul Feyerabend
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence - Marchetti and Marks
Coneheads - Davis, Aykroid, Turner and Turner
Corpus Areopagiticum - Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
DOI 10.1038/s41598-020-73913-4 - Satari, Guillén, Vidal-Verdú, and Porcar
Drunken Kung Fu: Eight Drunken Immortals - ikungfu.net
Emerald Tablet - Hermes Trismegistus
The Essential: Writings By, For, and about Marx - Marx and Eliot
Eufemiavisorna - Anonymous
The History of Synanon and Charles Dederich - Paul Morantz
Hotline Miami FAQ/Walkthrough - SubSane
iCarly: Trivia Quiz Book - Brooke W Loftin
Lasse-Majas besynnerliga öden. Av honom själv berättade - Lasse-Maja
Macimowa - Stanisław Szukalski
On Kings - Graeber and Sahlins
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes
Pizzagate - Various
The Point Is - Brian Moriarty
Reliance of the Traveller - Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri
Special Ops Troops ‘Hunkered Down’ in California Airport Hangar After Nighttime Ninja Attack - Chad Garland
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder - James De Mille
Team Special Olympics - Andrew Hussie
Understanding the Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher - Jonathan Pageau
--- Encountering Saint-Christopher - Jonathan Pageau
Fungi
Beneficial Effects of Fungi:

1. Decomposition - nutrient and carbon recycling.
2. Biosynthetic factories. The fermentation property is used for the industrial production of alcohols, fats, citric,oxalic and gluconic acids.
3. Important sources of antibiotics, such as Penicillin.
4. Model organisms for biochemical and genetic studies. Eg: Neurospora crassa
5. Saccharomyces cerviciae is extensively used in recombinant DNA technology, which includes the Hepatitis B Vaccine.
6. Some fungi are edible (mushrooms).
7. Yeasts provide nutritional supplements such as vitamins and cofactors.
8. Penicillium is used to flavour Roquefort and Camembert cheeses.
9. Ergot produced by Claviceps purpurea contains medically important alkaloids that help in inducing uterine contractions, controlling bleeding and treating migraine.
10. Fungi (Leptolegnia caudate and Aphanomyces laevis) are used to trap mosquito larvae in paddy fields and thus help in malaria control.

Harmful Effects of Fungi:

1. Destruction of food, lumber, paper, and cloth.
2. Animal and human diseases, including allergies.
3. Toxins produced by poisonous mushrooms and within food (Mycetism and Mycotoxicosis).
4. Plant diseases.
5. Spoilage of agriculture produce such as vegetables and cereals in the godown.
6. Damage the products such as magnetic tapes and disks, glass lenses, marble statues, bones and wax.

General properties of fungi:

1. They are eukaryotic; cells contain membrane bound cell organelles including nuclei, mitochondria, golgi
apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum, lysosomes etc. They also exhibit mitosis.
2. Have ergosterols in their membranes and possesses 80S ribosomes.
3. Have a rigid cell wall and are therefore non-motile, a feature that separates them from animals. All fungi
possess cell wall made of chitin.
4. Are chemoheterotrophs (require organic compounds for both carbon and energy sources) and fungi lack
chlorophyll and are therefore not autotrophic.
5. Fungi are osmiotrophic; they obtain their nutrients by absorption.
6. They obtain nutrients as saprophytes (live off of decaying matter) or as parasites (live off of living matter).
7. All fungi require water and oxygen and there are no obligate anaerobes.
8. Typically reproduce asexually and/or sexually by producing spores.
9. They grow either reproductively by budding or non-reproductively by hyphal tip elongation.
10. Food storage is generally in the form of lipids and glycogen.

Classification of fungi:

Fungi were initially classified with plants and were a subject of interest for botanists; hence the influence of botany can be seen on their classification. In 1969 R.H Whittaker classified all living organisms into five kingdoms namely Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia.


Traditionally the classification proceeds in this fashion:

Kingdom -
Subkingdom -
Phyla/phylum -
Subphyla -
Class -
Order -
Family -
Genus-
Species

This classification is too complicated to be dealt here.
There are alternate and more practical approaches, one based on sexual reproduction and the other based on morphology of the thallus (vegetative structure).
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