I read somewhere that Schizomycetes comprise of bacteria, and used to be called fungi. Does this mean they tho
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*Digging out my encyclopedia* The first bacteria were observed by Antony van Leeuwenhoek in 1683 using a single-lens microscope of his own design. The name bacterium was introduced much later, by Ehrenberg in 1828, derived from the Greek word βακτηριον meaning "small stick". Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) and Robert Koch (1843-1910) described the role of bacteria as conveyors and causes of disease or pathogens.\n\nOriginally the bacteria were considered microscopic fungi (called Schizomycetes), except for the photosynthetic cyanobacteria, which were considered a group of algae (called Cyanophyta or blue-green algae). It was only with the study of detailed cell structure that it was realized they formed a fundamental group, separate from the other organisms. In 1956 Copeland gave them their own kingdom Mychota, later renamed Monera, Prokaryota, or Bacteria. During the 1960s the concept was refined and bacteria (now including cyanobacteria) were recognized as one of two major divisions of the living world, together with the eukaryotes. Eukaryotes were generally believed to have evolved from bacteria, later from assemblies of bacteria.\nhttp://www.aaaah.org/wiki/en/ba/Bacterium.htm\nBacteria (singular: bacterium) are a major group of living organisms. Most are microscopic and unicellular, with a relatively simple cell structure lacking a cell nucleus, and organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts. Their cell structure is further described in the article about prokaryotes, because bacteria are prokaryotes, in contrast to organisms with more complex cells, called eukaryotes.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria
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Fungus makes antibiotics, which are secondary metabolites.
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It is used as a fungicide and parasiticide in fish. If you define fungi as bacteria, it does inhibit bacterial growth. There are several parasites that affect fish and the compound is used to kill the parasites at low levels.
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Fungi.\n\nThe first split in the phylogenetic tree comes between the prokaryotes and the eukaryotes.\n\nProkaryotes are cells without nuclei. They include both the bacteria kingdom and the archaea kingdom.\n\nMonera is an old obsolete classification that doesn't mean anything any more, but is more or less synonymous with archaea.\n\nEukaryotes are cells with a distinct nucleus. All multicellular organisms fall into this kingdom, including fungi and humans, thus placing fungi as having the most recent shared ancestor with humans.
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Chytridiomycota is a division of the Fungi kingdom and contains only one class, Chytridiomycetes. The name refers to the chytridium (from the Greek, chytridion, meaning "little pot"): the structure containing unreleased spores. In older classifications, chytrid orders (except the recently established Neocallimasticales and Spizellomycetales) were placed in the Class Phycomycetes under the Subdivision Myxomycophyta of the Kingdom Fungi. Also, in an older and more restricted sense (not used here), the term "chytrids" referred just to those fungi in the order Chytridiales. \n\nThe chytrids are the most primitive of the fungi and are mostly saprobic (degrading chitin and keratin). Many chytrids are aquatic (mostly found in freshwater). There are approximately 1,000 chytrid species, in 127 genera, distributed among 5 orders.). Some species are unicellular.\n \nZygomycota, or zygote fungi, are a division of fungi. The name of the division comes from zygosporangia, resistant structures formed during sexual reproduction. There are approximately 600 species of zygomycetes known. They are mostly terrestrial in habitat, living in soil or on decaying plant or animal material. Zygomycete hyphae are coenocytic, with septa only where gametes are formed. \n\nA common example of a zygomycete is black bread mold (Rhizopus stolonifer). It spreads over the surface of bread or other food sources, sending hyphae inward to absorb nutrients. In its asexual phase it develops bulbous black sporangia at the tips of upright hyphae, developing hundreds of haploid spores inside that are dispersed into the air.\n\nSome zygomycetes disperse their spores in a more precise manner than simply allowing them to drift aimlessly on air currents. Pilobolus, a fungus which grows on animal dung, bends its sporangium-bearing hyphae towards light and then "fires" them with an explosive squirt of high-pressure cytoplasm. Sporangia can be launched as far as 2m, placing them far away from the dung and hopefully on vegetation which will be eaten by an herbivore, eventually to be deposited as dung elsewhere. \n\nThe Zygomycota are generally placed at the base of the fungal phylogenetic tree, having diverged from other fungi after chytrids. However, the monophyly of zygomycetes themselves is not certain. Order Glomales was removed in 2002 and elevated to Division Glomeromycota due their lack of zygospore formation, among other pieces of evidence. \n. \nThe Division Basidiomycota is a large taxon within the Kingdom Fungi that includes those species that produce spores in a club-shaped structure called a basidium. Essentially the sibling group of the Ascomycota, it contains some 22,300 distinct species (37% of the described fungi). The Basidiomycota was traditionally divided into Homobasidiomycetes (the true mushrooms); and Heterobasidiomycetes (the rusts and smuts). The Basidiomycota is now thought to comprise three major clades, the Hymenomycotina (Hymenomycetes; mushrooms), the Ustilaginomycotina (Ustilaginomycetes; true smut fungi), and the Teliomycotina (Urediniomycetes; rusts). \n\nBasidiomycota include both unicellular (some yeasts) and multicellular forms and sexual and asexual species. They occur in terrestrial and aquatic environments (including the marine environment) and can be characterized by bearing sexual spores on basidia, having a long-lived dikaryon, and usually showing clamp connections. \n\nMembers of the Division Ascomycota are known as the Sac Fungi and are fungi that produce spores in a distinctive type of microscopic sporangium called an ascus (Greek for a "bag" or "wineskin"). This monophyletic grouping was formerly known as the Ascomycetae, or Ascomycetes, and is an extremely significant and successful group of organisms (12,000 species in 1950), accounting for some 75% of all described fungi.[1][2] Included are most of the fungi that combine with algae and sometimes cyanobacteria to form lichens. The
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Yeast is a fungus. It's not a plant or animal.
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mycology is the study of fungi so they are called mycologists
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Salaginella, Isoetes, Psilotum, Lepidodendron, Paurodendron, Equisetum, Pleuromeia, Nathorstiana, Phylloglossum, Tmesipteris, Pertica, Zosterophyllum, Psilophyton, Sawdonia, Horneophyton, Crooksonia, Rhynia, Aglaophyton, Onoclea, Todea, Osmunda\n\nMany of these are extinct.\n\nDon't listen to the first answer; fungi are not plants.\n\nGlad to see more people taking an interest in these things.\nThere is also a great book called "Primitive Land Plants," by F.O. Bower.
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Simple...ALL antibiotics that we use to treat bacterial infections and ifestations come from fungi themselves. It's just natural that fungi will have a resistance to these antibiotics that they release.\n\nA rather different approach must be used to stop fungal infection and proliferation not because they have a "tougher" cell wall or because they are eukaryotes--these things are more trivial than what people think. The difficulty in treating them is how to disintegrate their nucleic acid property (DNA) using a particular chemical without compromising the infected individual (i.e. you cannot just use acid to treat fungus in your skin or else you'll damage your skin also).
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Just go straight to Wikipedia to get the answer:\nKingdom: Bacteria\nPhylum: Firmicutes\nClass: Bacilli\nOrder: Lactobacillales\nFamily: Streptococcaceae\nGenus: Streptococcus\nSpecies: S. pneumoniae\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pneumoniae
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This sounds like a name of an antibiotic, derived from Streptomycetes. Google search does not give a single result so probably you've spelled the name incorrectly. You could try looking up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic , but I think that list of antibiotics is far from exhaustive. The closest names I could think of are actinomycin, kirromycin, maybe clarithromycin...
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No, not directly.  Bacteria are of the order of single celled organisms called prokaryotes, we are multicellular organisms of the order eukaryote.  We share basic similarities such as DNA, RNA, certain cell makeup but our genetic orders split into two different directions at a very early stage.  The genetic relationship stopped there.\n\nWe do share a symbiotic relationship with bacteria in our bodies and the world around us if that's what you mean.  We rely on bacteria to help break down food and control digestion.  Without that relationship we'd die.
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Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. This includes eukaryotes such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes such as bacteria and certain algaes. Viruses, though not strictly classed as living organisms, are also studied[1].\n\nAlthough much is now known in the field of microbiology, advances are being made regularly. The most common estimates suggest that we have studied only about 1% of all of the microbes in any given environment. Thus, despite the fact that over three hundred years have passed since the discovery of microbes, the field of microbiology is clearly in its infancy relative to other biological disciplines such as zoology, botany and entomology.\n\nYou could get more information from the link below...
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Live bacteria seems unlikely. Bacterial spores, no problems.\n\nYou would have more luck trying to isolate fungi.
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Rhizobium bacteria are in the root nodules or legumes.
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WHAT FUNGI IS A HETEROTROPH??!?!??!?!?! i thought that heterotrophs eat other heterotrophs or autotrophs for energy and i dont think mushrooms do that. Anyways the 4 heterotrophs are birds, wolves, snakes, and bears.
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Plants are believed to have evolved from green algae, as they are both photosynthetic possessing the same pigments for photosynthesis.  Fungi are actually quite dissimilar from plants as they are not photosynthetic, some are parasites and all are chemotrophic.  They also use chitin in their cell walls as opposed to cellulose.  Fungi also store energy in the form of glycogen not starch, as plants do.