Water molds
- Water molds decompose dead animals and plants in freshwater habitats.
- Heterotrophic
- Some water moles are parasitic
- Fungus-like
- Are either unicellular or one mass of a cell with many nuclei
- Reproduce sexually and asexually
- Potentially harmful to animals
- Colonial
- The zygotes of water molds will ideally have motile spores with two flagella