> more distant genetic relatives than your salad! This is ideological BS, not scientific facts. Many of this kind of posts are just pseudoscience in its most p

> more distant genetic relatives than your salad! This is ideological BS, not scientific facts. Many of this kind of posts are just pseudoscience in its most pure form. An animal is obviously more related with another member of the same kingdom than with another member of a different kingdom. Why? Because taxonomy works exactly like that. If you find a single animal with DNA more closely related with a plant that with another animal that would destroy the entire classification of life. Molluscs can have, and do have, chloroplasts under its skin. We know about several species of molluscs that have it, but this is borrowed stuff. To a naive person could appear as one single species in a genetic analysis, but is an artifact. We know better and learned not to trust blindly in those analysis