Re: What is moneran mold?

Moneran mold is a slang term. 
Mold by definition is fungi, fungi are Eukarotic organisms, many of 
which form long filementous structures that we call mold. Eukaryotic cells 
are like the cells in your body, the are quite large, and have many 
internal compartmants.
Moneran, is the possessive form of Monera. Monera is the name of the 
kingdom of prokaryotes. Prokaryotes are more often reffered to as bacteria. 
Prokaryotes are very small, some being only 1/100 th the size, or smaller 
than a Eukaryotic cell, and rarely do they have any internal 
compartments. Prokaryotes by definition can not be mold, because mold 
is Eukaryotic, an entirely different kingdom.
So what is moneran mold? First it isn't mold, but some bacteria can form 
into long filamentous structures just like the fungi do. An impotant 
difference is that the size, meaning width, of these structures is actually 
much smaller than the width of fungi. Sometimes these structures are 
mistakenly identified as mold, and you would have to look under a 
microscope to tell for sure wether the cells were prokaryotic or 
eukaryotic. The group of bacteria that are most often misidentified at 
first glance as been mold are the Streptomyces.
Generally speaking, most things that look like mold really are mold, but 
somtimes it is really just bacteria that have formed fruiting bodies.
Fruiting bodies, think of trees rising from the ground and producing 
fruit that hold seeds. This is exactly what mold and some bacteria, 
Streptomyces and Myxoccocus xanthus,  do, they rise up forming a tree trunk 
like structure with a mass of cells at the top that gradually turn into 
spores, which are basically like seeds. That is why mold, and streptomyces 
looks fuzzy, there is literally thousands of these fruting bodies, trees, 
rising up from the mold or bacterial colony.