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Water molds and slime molds and cellular slime molds are both groups of microorganisms but they differ significantly in their biology, life cycles and ecological roles.
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Hence, let's look at a comparison and contrast between molds and cellular slime molds.
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So first, on the basis of classification, water molds belong to the kingdom straminopilla.
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They belong to the straminopilla.
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They are more closely related to brown algae more closely related to brown algae and diatoms than to true fungi.
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While cellular slime molds belong to amoebozoa.
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They belong to amoebozoa group.
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They are more closely related to amoebas they are more closely related to amoebas than to fungi.
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The water molds belong to straminopilla group and cellular slime molds belong to amoebozoa group.
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Second difference is in the cell wall composition.
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Water molds have cell walls primarily composed of cellulose similar to plant cells.
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This sets them apart from the true fungi which have cell walls made of chitin.
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While the cellular slime molds, they lack rigid cell walls and they have flexible membranes.
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They are amoeba like in their feeding stage...