Driver nearly crashes when her car suddenly shut down on a busy interstate because auto lender hit remote kill switch when she missed a payment. T. Candice Smith, 31, and her friend were driving down a three-lane Las Vegas interstate in 2012 when her steering wheel began to lock up.
Protists are single and multicellular organisms that are plant-like, animal-like and fungi-like. They evolved from bacteria and represent the intermediate step in the evolution of the other three kingdoms. There are 12 phyla in this kingdom, most of which live in water.
The plant-like organisms are phytoplankton (from phytos, Greek for plant); small animal plankton are zooplankton (from zoios, Greek for animal); and bacteria and archaea, minuscule cells that decompose material and recycle chemicals in the ocean, make up the bacterioplankton. But these categories are far from perfect.