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| | Chapter 1 Kingdoms and Classification |
 | | Although the outline of the Kingdoms seems relatively sound, the classification of fungi at the lower levels - class, order, family and genus, is being shaken up by an influx of molecular data. |
 | | The classification presented in the chapters that follow is still to some extent based on the ideas first proposed by the great biologist, Anton de Bary, in the 19th century, and refined by many subsequent generation of mycologists using morphological, anatomical and developmental characteristics. |
 | | For purposes of classification (which is actually a method of information storage and retrieval), related genera are grouped into families, families are grouped into orders, orders into classes, classes into phyla, and phyla into Kingdoms. |
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