How Fungi are Helping us in Our Busy Lives

Fungi are helping us in several fascinating ways.  Fungi are helping our bakeries through yeast which is used in allowing bread to rise, they are assisting in cleaning up the environment by acting as decomposers, and some can even be eaten as food by us.  I will give an example.

There is a kind of mushroom called a truffle that is extremely valuable to those who harvest it, and it is considered a delicacy to those who buy this mushroom.  In this way the mushroom is both helping people to get something to eat, but it is also helping our economy as a source of income.

Fungi are even helping us to collect important medical information that will help us in our lives.  

As you can see, fungi are helping us in absolutely amazing ways everyday, just as they have throughout the history of our ancient world.  The world is filled with strange, intriguing, disturbing, and beautiful things, and although each of these things only makes up a small part of the picture, when they are put together they make a brilliant painting filled with wonders nearly beyond our comprehension.  My point is that although fungi may seem small and insignificant in the makeup of our world, they play a vital role in the survival of nature.

I hope that you have found even a small portion of enlightenment from this essay, and I hope that you have a lovely day enjoying our magical planet!  

Plants' Roles in a Zombie Apocalypse

"Describe one or more possible roles plants could play in the future of humanity.  How are these roles different than what occurred in the past?"


There are of course several fascinating roles that Earth's plants can play in the future, but for today I would like to discuss how they can potentially help in a zombie apocalypse.  I know this sounds ridiculous, but I always do serious reports, so I thought that I would go ahead and have a little fun with this one.

Beacause of the thorns, rose bushes like this
one would make very good fences around
your home, to ward off any hostile zombie
virus survivors.

If something as impossible as the zombie apocalypse were to happen, plants would play an absolutely vital role in people's everyday lives.  For instance, vines could be used as rope in order to serve as a temporary fix for broken fences, many medicinal herbs could be used to prevent/cure illnesses, trees could be used as "safe houses" because it would be difficult for a mindless rotting zombie to climb a ladder successfully, and people could also use different kinds of plants as camouflage for either them, or for their houses.

Now we come to the question "How are these roles different than what occurred in the past?".  The answer is terribly simple.  In the past, there wasn't a zombie apocalypse.  Since there was never a zombie apocalypse, people never had to build zombie proof homes, or attempt to find a cure for the zombie virus using medicinal herbs.  If the zombie virus had never hit before, these things would be completely different concepts than in the past.

Thank you so much for reading this essay, and I hope that it gave you had a good laugh!