Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 3 minutes later[^][v]#1,280,845
protists are the autists of the animal kingdom. actually, they're not even really animals. or plants. or fungus. or bacteria. they're their own autistic group of eukaryotes.
theory goes that the cell nucleus in eukaryotes (i.e. all animals, plants, fungi, and protists) evolved from a DNA virus that invaded and eventually took over a primitive bacteria, absorbing all of its DNA.
if true, that would mean we are all bacteria being piloted by a zombie virus.