Kingdom Protista and Fungi
Kingdom Protista includes mostly unicellular eukaryotes, while kingdom Fungi includes eukaryotic organisms that usually absorb nutrition from dead or living matter.
In one line: Protists are simple eukaryotic singles; fungi are absorbers.
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Protists such as Amoeba, Paramecium, and Euglena have a true nucleus and are generally unicellular. Fungi such as yeast, mushroom, and bread mould have cell walls and obtain food by absorption. Fungi are not plants because they do not have chlorophyll-based autotrophic nutrition.
Example
Rule to remember
Protista: eukaryotic and mostly unicellular.
Fungi: eukaryotic, absorptive nutrition, cell wall, non-green.
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Worked example
- 1If an organism is unicellular, eukaryotic, and moves using pseudopodia, classify it as Protista.
- 2If it is non-green and absorbs food from bread, classify it as Fungi.
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Draw Amoeba with nucleus and pseudopodia; draw bread mould with thread-like hyphae and sporangia for fungi.
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How can you separate Amoeba and mushroom at kingdom level?
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Common wrong answer
Writing mushroom as a plant.
Why it loses marks: It does not make food by photosynthesis and has absorptive nutrition.
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How CBSE asks it
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Kingdom Protista includes mostly unicellular eukaryotes, while kingdom Fungi includes eukaryotic organisms that usually absorb nutrition from dead or living matter.
- 2
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Example: Amoeba belongs to Protista, while yeast and mushroom belong to Fungi.
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Protists such as Amoeba, Paramecium, and Euglena have a true nucleus and are generally unicellular.
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