Hi everyone, If anyone is feeling a little confused about the relationships between animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria, you might be interested in looking over the web site of the Tree of Life Project at: http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html From this site we can see the answers to a few questions: Are bacteria plants? No. Only the chloroplasts and mitochondria in plant cells are related to bacteria. Are fungi plants? No, fungi are more closely related to animals than they are to plants. Are viruses alive? Beats me.......! Regards, Jim Shields ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA