They can both be multicellular, they can both be hetrotrophs, and they are both eukaryotic.
Animal-like protists share characteristics with animals such as being motile, meaning they are capable of moving on their own. Additionally, they can consume food particles by engulfing them, a process known as phagocytosis. Finally, they often possess specialized structures for sensory perception, similar to the sensory organs found in animals.
Animal-like protists are called protozoa. Protozoaare single-celled eukaryotes that share some traits with animals. Like animals, they can move, and they are heterotrophs.
Animal-like protists are called protozoa. Protozoaare single-celled eukaryotes that share some traits with animals. Like animals, they can move, and they are heterotrophs.
Animals are multicellular, heterotrophic organisms with specialized tissues and organs for different functions, while protists are mostly unicellular or simple multicellular, with a wide range of nutritional modes including autotrophic and heterotrophic.
Sexual reproduction is the primary characteristic used to classify the types of animal-like protists. However, determining if the protist is multi-cellular is also another primary characteristic.?æ
Some protists are photosynthetic(like plants),some ingest food(like animals),and some absorb their food(like fungi).
No, protists are not animals. They are a diverse group of eukaryotic microorganisms that do not fit into the plant, animal, or fungi kingdoms. Instead, they are classified into their own kingdom called Protista.
eukaryotic
An organism that eats protists or animals is called a predator.
Protists, fungi, plants, and animals share a domain in the six kingdom system because they are all eukaryotic organisms, meaning their cells have a true nucleus enclosed within a membrane. This common characteristic distinguishes them from prokaryotic organisms like bacteria, which are classified in a separate domain. Within this domain, these organisms are further classified into separate kingdoms based on their specific characteristics and evolutionary relationships.
animals
Fungi are not plants mainly because they are heterotrophic and lack the capacity to perform photosynthesis. Fungi are more closely related to animals than plants and most protists. (The term protist has no phylogenetic meaning anymore. That is, "protists" are not all related to one another. There are some prostists that group with fungi in the most recent eukaryotic tree of life. However, more research needs to be done to discover the synapomorphies, or shared, derived traits, between fungi and these protists.) They are more similar to protists in that many protists are also heterotrophic. However, most protists use the DAP pathway to synthesize lysine while fungi use the AAA pathway. Protists use a variety of compounds to store energy. Plants use starch and starch-like compounds. Fungi and animals use glycogen. The cisternae of the mitochondria of many protists are tubular, while animals and fungi have plate-like cisternae.