What is the difference between Protists and Fungi?

Protists and fungi are known to be part of Kingdom Protista and Kingdom Fungi. These are considered to be less organized organisms, especially when compared to other animals from the other kingdoms. Their chromosomes are organized properly so that they can have a nucleus. Both will have asexual reproduction but the difference is how the reproduction will occur.

For protists, it would occur through the binary fission while in fungi, it will occur through the spores. There are also some that are under these kingdoms that use sexual reproduction. Take note that for Protists, no septa can be found but for fungi, septa can be found. These characteristics will help determine what organisms will be under protists and which ones can be found under septa.

Protists and fungi are a part of a unique kingdom of life. Protists are complex and diverse, while fungi are much simpler to characterize. Protists are unicellular organisms. The majority of fungi are multicellular organisms. Most protists are spherical, which is sub-optimal for deriving oxygen by diffusion. Giant protists have an elongated shape to harbor their increased need for oxygen diffusion.

Protists contain plant-like cell walls; however, many protists do not have a cell wall. Fungi are typically large enough to be seen without a microscope. Protists are unique in that they include organisms capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction within the same lifetime. Fungi reproduction is more complicated than asexual reproduction.