🍀🍄By Brandon Howard 🍄🍀

What is a protist?

• They are eukaryotes that cannot be classified as animals, plants, and fungi.
• Live in moist surroundings.
• Some can't move others zoom around their moist surroundings.

Animal-like protist🐢🐵

• Animal-like Protists are heterotrophs.
• Protozoans are unicellular.
• Most are able to move from place to place.
• Protozoan can be classified into four groups.

🌻🍁Plant-like protist🌻🍁

• They are autotrophs.
• Most use photosynthesis .
• They vary greatly in size.
• Diatoms are unicellular with a glass cell wall.
• Dinoflagellates are unicellular algae surrounded by stiff plates.

Fungus-like Protists 🍄

• They are heterotrophs.
• Have cell walls.
• Uses spores to reproduce.
• spore is a tiny cell that is able to grow into a new organism.

🍄🍄What is a fungus?🍄🍄

• Fungi are eukaryotes that have cell walls.
• They are heterotrophs that feed by absorbing their food.
• They use spores to reproduce.
• Fungi need moist, warm places in which to grow

🌾Sac fungi🌾

• Sac fungi produce spores
• These spores look like long sacs
• It is the largest group of fungi
• It includes yeasts, morels, and truffles

🍄🍄Club Fungus🍄🍄

• Produces spores in tiny club like structures
• This group in includes mushrooms, rusts, and puffballs.

Zygote Fungi

• Produce resistant spores
• Includes many common fruits
• includes bread molds
• Includes Rhizopus

Uses of fungi

• Decompose deceased beings
• Medical remedies
• Used for food
• Return nutrients to the soil