The kingdom Fungi includes a tremendous variety of organisms that are neither plant nor animal. These unique multicellular eukaryotes include edible examples like mushrooms and organisms such as yeast, which makes our bread rise and ferments our beer and wine. And their impact on our world as decomposers is absolutely crucial to every ecosystem.There are also two conventional groups which are not recognized as formal taxonomic groups (ie. they are polyphyletic); these are the Deuteromycota (
