Difference Between Bacteria and Fungi

What is meant by bacteria and fungi?

Bacteria:

Bacteria are unicellular free living organisms having
both DNA and RNA. They are capable of performing all
essential processes of life, e.g., growth, reproduction, and
metabolism.

They do not show any true branching except
Actinomycetales, the higher bacteria. Bacteria lack chlorophyll unlike blue green algae, which contain chlorophyll.

Fungi:

The name “fungi” is derived from “mykos” meaning mushroom. The fungi are eukaryotic organisms and they differ from the bacteria, which are prokaryotic organisms, in many ways.

The natural habitats of most of the fungi which cause
systemic mycoses are in organic wastes or debris or in
soil enriched by organic wastes.

Fungi differ from bacteria in a number of ways which is shown in the following table.

Differences between Bacteria and Fungi:

Serial no.	Basis for comparison	Fungi	Bacteria
1.	Cell type	Eukaryotic	Prokaryotic
2.	Optimum pH	3.8-5.6	6.5-7.5
3.	Optimum temperature	22-30 degree centigrade.	30-37 degree centigrade (Mesophiles).
4.	Energy source	They obtain their energy from the used and pre-existing sources present in environment.	Obtain their energy from sugars, proteins and fats.
5.	Organelles	Organelles present	Cell lack organelles
6.	Light requirement	None	Some photosynthetic group requires light.
7.	Carbon requirement	Organic	Inorganic and organic
8.	Cell membrane	Present	Present below the cell wall.
9.	Cell wall structural components	Chitin, cellulose or Hemi-cellulose.	Peptido-glycan
10.	Sugar concentration in laboratory media	4.5%	0.5-1%
11.	Host	They grow their own	They do not need a host to grow.
12.	Reproduction	Asexual	Can be either sexually or asexually
13.	Motility	They are non motile	Move through flagellum