Question

Explain three unique ways fungi are different from other microbes (algae, protozoans, bacteria and archaea). Compare things like cell walls, cell membranes, morphology, reproduction, life cycles.

Answer 1

	Bacteria	Protozoan	Fungi	Algae
Cell wall	peptidoglycan	absent or present (cellulose)	chitin	cellulose
Nutrition	autotrophic and heterotrophic	autotrophic and heterotrophic	heterotrophic	autotrophic
Cell morphology	unicellular, colonial	unicellular	filamentous thread like cells called hyphe which form a network called mycelium	undifferentiated multicellular thallus, colonial
Reproduction	asexual mainly	asexual mainly	both sexual and asexual	both sexual and asexual
Life cycle	simple life cycle, shows amitotic division of nucleus and cytoplasm	mainly shows binary fission, mitosis and meiosis	shows plasmogamy, karyogamy and meiosis	shows alternation of generation

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