FUNGI KINGDOM

* Fungus are heterotrophes,they depend on dead and decayed food, hence they are saprophytes. some are parasites, some are symbionts e.g.- Lichen( live in association with algae) and some are mycorrhiza( association with roots of higher plants).
* fungus are cosmopolitan and occur in air, water, soil  and on animals and plants body.
* they prefer to grow in warm and humid area.
* only yeast are unicellular.
*fungus are filamentous.
*their bodies consist of long slender thread like structure called hyphae.
*the cell wall of fungi is composed of chitin and polysaccharides.
* all types of reproduction are seen in fungus, such as
         >vegetative reproduction-by fragmentation , fission, and budding.

         >asexual reproduction-by spore formation called conidia or sporangiospores or zoospores.

         >sexual reproduction-by oospore, ascospore and basidiospore.

*sexual reproduction involves following steps-
         -fusion of protoplasm between two motile and non-motile gametes called plasmogamy.         -fussion of two nuclei called karyogamy.         -meiosis in zygote resulting in haploid spores.

* dikaryon- in ascomycetes and basidiomycetes, at the time of fusion the two nuclei comes together and makes dikaryon. this phase is called dikaryophase..
* fungus are divide into various classes, some are-
    1. phycomycetes
    2.ascomycetes
    3.basidiomycetes
    4.deuteromycetes

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PROTOZOANS

*they are heterotrophes and live as predator or parasite.
*they are of four major types:-
1. Amoeboid protozoans- they live in fresh water, marine water, moist soil
                                         they have pseudopodia e.g.- amoeba
                                         they have silica shell on surfacee.g.- entamoeba

2.Flagellated protozoans-they are either free living or parasitic.
                                         they have flagella e.g. - Trypanosoma

3.Ciliated protozoans-they are aquatic and actively moving organism.
                                    they have thousand of cilia. e.g.- paramoecium

4.Sporozoans- this includes diverse organism.
                        Plasmodium is it example which is cause very dangerous disease nemed Malaria.

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SLIME MOULDS

*they are saprophytes(depend on dead and decay food).
* in favourable condition they aggregate and forms plasmodium.
* in unfavourable condition it forms fruiting body and forms spores, which lasts for several years.


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EUGLENOIDS

* majority lives in fresh and stagnant water.
*they have protein rich layer called Pellicle, so its body is flexible.
* they don't have cell wall.
*they are autotroph in presence of sun light and heterotroph in absence of sun light.
*pigments of euglenoids are same as in higher plants.
*example ; Euglena

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DINOFLAGELLATES

* these are mostly marine
* they are photosynthetic.
*they may be red, green ,blue, brown, yellow etc.
*most of them have two flagella, one is longitudinal and another is transverse.
* Gonyaulax divide rapidly and forms red tides on sea.
* they release toxic substances.

                                                                 RED SEA

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CHRYSOPHYTES

*they live in both fresh and marine water.
*they are microscopic and float with water current.
*they are mostly photosynthetic.
*diatoms,golden algae(desmids)   are its examples.
*diatoms have silica cell wall.
* accumulation of silica in its habitat forms diatomaceous earth, which is used as polishing, filtering oil, in syrup.
*diatoms are producers of ocean.

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PROTISTA KINGDOM

* single cell eukaryotes are placed under this protista,but the limitation of this kingdom is not defined.
* it has well defined nucleus and membrane bound organelles.
*some protista have cilia or flagella.
*they reproduce by both mean i.e. sexually and asexually.
* Chrysophytes, Slime moulds, Euglenoids, Dinoflagellates , Protozoans are comes under protista.

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