Is bacteria animal or plant?

Only then do we get the different kingdoms: Animalia and Plantae (for animals and plants respectively.) Concluding: Bacteria are not animals or plants because their cells have a completely different structure than ours and therefore they belong to another category. Neither plants or animals. But bacteria. read more

Bacterial cells (prokaryotic) are quite different than plant or animal cells (eukaryotic). Current definitions of the biological Kingdom Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). read more

Best Answer: Bacteria is neither plant nor animal. Plants are in Kingdom Plantae. Animals are in Kingdom Animalia. In a five-kingdom classification system, bacteria are in Kingdom Monera. In a six-kingdom system, bacteria are in Kingdom Eubacteria and Kingdom Archaebacteria. read more