Many, many, organisms die every year, as we all know, and without fungi, nothing would be able to decompose. You see, fungi break down dead plant and animal matter, completely eliminating any trace of the dead animal or plant. There are also some types of fungi that make medicine. For example, through an accidental discovery, the drug penicillin was created. Alexander Fleming was studying bacteria in 1928 when his experiment was contaminated with spores of Penicillium fungus destroyed all of the bacteria in his experiment. Through multiple years of research, the drug penicillin was created. Fungi also benefit plants, as roots of plants and hyphae of fungi weave together to create a structure called mycorrhiza. Since fungi cannot photosynthesize,
