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Where should organisms in Microsporidia be classified? Give characteristics of these organisms which you used to place them in a taxonomic unit and the source you used to find their characteristics. Do NOT copy and paste from any website; do not use any word which you cannot define in your posts.

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Classification:

     Domain : Eukaryota

     Kingdom: Fungi

     Division : Microsporidia

     Species: Sprague, Corliss.. etc.

1) Microsporida is a obligate unicellular parasite. As it is unicellular, it is intially considered as a protistans, but latter identified as a fungi.

2) It causes infection in both verterbrates and invertebrates.it infects insects, crustaceans, fish and humans. In humans it cause microsporidiosis.

3) Microsporidia caused several other diseases such as Enterocytozoon bieneusi, Enterocytozoon,Nosema,Pleistophora,Trachipleistophora, Encephalitozoon, and Vittaforma.

4) Microsporidia survive under favourable conditions by producing spores,in which, exospore is dense and endospore of the spore is made of polysaccharide, chitin.