protozoa

As cute as kittens, and spiders, daffidls and protozoa are, we aren't equal.

That rules out all non-living things because they don't act, but includes plants and even protozoa.

Today, all animals rely on it to endure famines, as do plants, fungi and single-cell protozoa.

Seeing a Martian protozoa that evolved independently of Earth life would be scary.

I remember a big one from Milwaukee in the early '90s, looking it up, it was caused by a protozoa, cryptosporidium.

Yes the human microbiome consists of fungus in addition to bacteria, protozoa and viruses.

Certain exposures to food, bacteria, fungi, protozoa make us hypersensitive to these or other microbes over time.

Well, if you insist on that level of pedantry, malarial parasites are protozoa, which is usually considered to be part of animalia.

Because many fungi and protozoa cannot survive without ergosterol, the enzymes that synthesize it have become important targets for drug discovery.

Actually since ocean acidification provides a chemical power source for protozoa, we probably only have a year or two before one of the species adapts and brings it back to it's previous level by harvesting the energy in it.

Zynga-as-Virus as an analogy wouldn't be too useful as it's not a case of simple self-replication in attacks / predation on the host; it's also camouflaging itself as other fauna to fool the hosts' current anti-body set, as EA, a much larger protozoa, is trying to eat it for as competition.

The malaria parasite microorganism, one of the species of the Plasmodium genus of protozoa,[2] is also being targeted directly both for vaccine prevention and for drug treatment of malaria, but part of the Plasmodium life cycle is obligatorily in living mosquitoes, so to kill mosquitoes is to reduce the load of the parasite and its risk to human populations.