Mycota

Japanese: Mycota
Mycota

…However, there are also organisms like sponges that are sessile and do not look like animals at first glance, and organisms like euglena that perform photosynthesis, a characteristic of plants, and are treated as both animals and plants. Bacteria and fungi were once treated as plants, mainly due to the morphological characteristics of their cells, but their way of life, which relies solely on organic matter, cannot be said to be plant-like, and their overall appearance is not animal-like either, and from the perspective of evolution, it is difficult to classify them as either animals or plants. Today, a group called fungi (kingdom Mycota) is considered to be the "third living thing." It has long been a topic of debate as to whether viruses are living things, but since viruses do not have their own energy conversion system and rely on living cells of other organisms for their metabolism to reproduce themselves, they are not currently included in the category of living things. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Mycota" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし,動物でありながら,固着性で,一見して動物とは思えぬカイメンのようなものもおり,またミドリムシのように,植物の特徴である光合成を行うため動物としても植物としても扱われる生物もいる。細菌類,菌類などは,主として細胞の形態学的特徴などから,かつては植物として扱われてきたが,もっぱら有機物質に頼るという生き方などは植物的とはいえず,さりとて全体的な様相は動物的でもなく,進化の筋道からみても,動物,植物のいずれかに含めるのは難があるとして,今日では〈第三の生物〉といわれる菌類(菌界Mycota)なるグループが設定されている。 ウイルスが生物であるかどうかは長い間論議の的であったが,ウイルスは自分ではエネルギー転換系をもたず,物質代謝の面は生物の生きた細胞に依存して自己増殖を行うため,現在では生物の範疇(はんちゆう)には含められていない。…

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