stackyFACTSBiology textbooks blatantly lied to you for over a century. Lichen was famously taught as a perfectly simple, happy marriage between a single fungus and some algae. But massive genomic sequencing of the toxic Wolf Lichen revealed a polyamorous scandal: a hidden yeast acts as a secret third partner producing its lethal acid.
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