Microbiology Differences Among Algae, Protozoa, and Fungi

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Differences among algae, protozoa, and fungi

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There are various types of microorganisms and algae, protozoa, as well as fungi, are common types of microorganism. Protozoa and algae are examples of protists. Protists are not animals, plants, or fungi. Algae are plant-like protists that could be either multicellular or unicellular. They are photosynthetic organisms. They extract energy from the sun as well as release carbon dioxide and oxygen into their environment (Angeli et al., 2019). They are also a very important part of many ecosystems because the waste products of algae are used by many organisms for energy. On the other hand, protozoa are protists that help in making the backbones of various food webs by facilitating nutrients for other organisms. They are very diverse and some of them move with the help of cilia a hair-like structure or flagella a whip-like structure. Not all protozoa are photosynthetic as some feed on organic material. Some protozoa are free-living while some are parasitic. They are only able to survive by extracting nutrients from a host organism. Most of them are harmless. However, some of them are pathogens that may cause disease in humans and animals.

Fungi are eukaryotes and they are not photosynthetic. The cell walls of fungi are made of chitin rather than cellulose. Fungi could also be unicellular or multicellular. There are more than 1000 known species of fungi and they are found in many different environments (Nweze et al., 2020). Yeasts are one of the unicellular fungi that have beneficial uses such as causing beverages to ferment and bread to rise.