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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 05:27:25 EDT
Subject: Re: about immortal fungi

From: Thomas Donaldson <>

> The important issue in immortality for a variety of fungus isn't really
> the metabolic path they follow or fail to follow that removes their
> aging, but just how close does this metabolic path resemble one 
> which we or mammals in general follow. Despite the recent discovery
> that even some kinds of bacteria show aging, I wouldn't be very surprised
> at all if some life forms show no aging at all in the wild, and in
> their normal state.

Contrairy to what your message seems tell, fungi are not bacteria, even 

single cell fungi are  eucaryote (cells with nuclei) They are far more similar 
to 
our own cells that to bacterium. If something applies to fungi, it applies to 
us at 90 percent at least.

Yvan Bozzonetti.


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