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Whats the difference between fungi and bacteria?

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Whats the difference between fungi and bacteria?

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  1. Fungi are bigger organisms than Bacteria and Fungi are eukaryotic and prokaryotes

    The size difference is fungi are usually visible to the eye and bacteria are only a few mircometers

    Also the Fungi have a plant cell wall and Bacteria have a different kind of cell wall


  2. A fungus (pronounced /ˈfʌŋgəs/) is any eukaryotic organism that is a member of the kingdom Fungi (pronounced /ˈfʌndʒaɪ/).The fungi are heterotrophic organisms possessing a chitinous cell wall. The majority of species grow as multicellular filaments called hyphae forming a mycelium; some fungal species also grow as single cells. Sexual and asexual reproduction of the fungi is commonly via spores, often produced on specialized structures or in fruiting bodies. Some species have lost the ability to form specialized reproductive structures, and propagate solely by vegetative growth. Yeasts, molds, and mushrooms are examples of fungi. The fungi are a monophyletic group that is phylogenetically clearly distinct from the morphologically similar slime molds (myxomycetes) and water molds (oomycetes). The fungi are more closely related to animals than plants, yet the discipline of biology devoted to the study of fungi, known as mycology, often falls under a branch of botany.

    Bacteria (singular: bacterium) are unicellular microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods to spirals. Bacteria are ubiquitous in every habitat on Earth, growing in soil, acidic hot springs, radioactive waste,seawater, and deep in the Earth's crust. There are typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil and a million bacterial cells in a millilitre of fresh water; in all, there are approximately five nonillion (5×1030) bacteria on Earth,forming much of the world's biomass. Bacteria are vital in recycling nutrients, and many important steps in nutrient cycles depend on bacteria, such as the fixation of nitrogen from the atmosphere. However, most of these bacteria have not been characterized, and only about half of the phyla of bacteria have species that can be cultured in the laboratory.The study of bacteria is known as bacteriology, a branch of microbiology.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungi

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria

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