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Neither. Living things are classified into 5 kingdoms - animalia, plantae, fungi, protista, and monera. Bacteria belong to the kingdom monera. Bacteria cells are prokaryotic while all the other kingdoms contain eukaryotes.

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As far as I know, bacteria aren't considered animals. They are in the kingdom Monera, which animals are not. Bacteria do not sexually reproduce the way that animals do. Bacteria go through a process of simple fission while the process of reproduction for animals is a little more complicated than that.

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because they do have the 7 characteristics of life which are movement, respiration, sensitivity(irritability), growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition. they also have a proper cell structure unlike viruses.

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No, they are two separte kingdoms.
Bacteria isn't so much an animal, as it is an organism. It's a living thing, an organism, but it isn't classified on the animal kingdom.

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Animals are mulitcellular and are eukaryotic. Bacteria is unicellular and is prokaryotic.

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bacteria is not a plant or an animal because it is single-celled. plants and animals have many cells.

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