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F ungi are plants that do not contain chlo-

rophyll. They often cause diseases in the
bodies of the living things they enter,
generally by causing infections. At the
same time they meet a large part of the

food and mineral needs of living things on Earth
and are essential to the survival of life on the
planet. Around 90,000 different species have
been described.
According to some estimates, there are 1.5 mil-
lion known and unknown different species of fungi. 82 HARUN YAHYA

Fungi generally multiply in the dark, in moist
environments and everywhere there is organic mat-
ter. They prefer warm environments. Even though
they do not multiply readily in the cold, it is still im- (ADNAN OKTAR)
possible to kill them by freezing. At cold tempera-

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