Difference between Protists and Fungi
No. |
Protists |
Fungi |
1. | The very first organisms or first eukaryotes on the earth, which can be unicellular, multicellular, mostly aquatic organisms, autotrophic or heterotrophic, live in moist environment are referred as Protists. | Unicellular or multicellular eukaryotes with chitinous cell wall, absorptive nutrition and stores energy as a glycogen is referred as fungi. |
2. | These are mostly single celled organisms. | These are mostly multicellular organisms. |
3. | Protists can be autotrophic, heterotrophic, parasitic or saprophytic. | Fungi can be heterotrophs. |
4. | Protists contains three types and are protozoans, algae and molds. | Fungi contains total seven phyla. |
5. | Asexual reproduction in Protists takes place through binary fission. | Asexual reproduction in fungi takes place through spores. |
6. | Sexual reproduction in Protists takes place through production of gametes. | Sexual reproduction in fungi takes place through mating. |
7. | Some of Protists contain cell wall. | All fungi contains cell wall which is made up chitin. |
8. | Examples of Protists are Amoeba, Green algae and Euglena etc. | Examples of fungi are Eomycota, Pichia and Yeast etc. |