Wednesday, February 10, 2010

What features distinguish slime molds and water molds from fungi?

Parasitic and predatory molds, water molds (Class Oomycota), and slime molds are the fungal-like protists. These move and lack the chitin that helps define true fungi. Protists have a motile life stage fungi do not.


Oomycete (water molds)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oomycota


This site explains the reclassification of slime molds as Protista


http://herbarium.usu.edu/fungi/FunFacts/鈥?/a>

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