Protistology is a scientific discipline devoted to the study of protists, a highly diverse group of eukaryoticorganisms. Its field of study overlaps with more traditional disciplines of phycology, mycology, and protozoology, just as protists, which, being a paraphyletic group embrace algae, some organisms regarded previously as primitive fungi, and protozoa(“animal” motile protists lacking chloroplasts HistoryEdit As the term “protozoology” has become dated as our understanding ofContinue reading “Protistology”
