Bacteria and fungi are members of their own kingdoms so they are neither plants nor animals. Some bacteria are studied by botanists because of their similarity to some plants. A good example is...
Fungi such as the mushrooms are neither plants nor animals. They belong in their own separate kingdom, the Fungi. Unlike plants, fungi are heterotrophic. They do not contain any plastids and cannot...
There are approximately ten times as many bacterial cells in the human flora as there are human cells in the body, with large numbers of bacteria on the skin and as gut flora.[