Diversity Flashcards
Name the Diversities in Kingdom Classification
Species
Genus
Family
Order
Class
Phylum
Kingfom
What is Species?
An Organism of particular kind for interbreeding process.
What is Genus?
Organisms with same physical features but cannot interbreed.
What is family?
Group of Genus with one common characteristic.
What is an order?
Related families make an order.
What is a class?
Related orders make a class.
What is a Phylum?
It is the largest diversity of both plants and animals. Phylum is divided into 9 majour phylas.
Porifera
Cnidaria
Platyhelminthes
Nematoda
Annelida
Arthropoda
Mollusca
Echinodormata
Chordata
What is a kingdom?
Kingdom is the largest diversity of living beings.
It is divided into 5 kingdoms.
Monera
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
State the drawbacks of the classification made by Linnaeus.
-Linnaeus divided the groups into 2 kingdoms_ Plantae and Animalia.
-Bacteria however couldn’t be called as a Plant or Animal because it was Prokaryotic also possessed Flagella.
-Single called Euglena couldn’t be called as an animal or plant as it had chlorophyll and a digestive system.
-Fungj could not be called as plants as it didn’t have chlorophyll,root system etc.
State a true monerian
Bacteria
State body structure of Monera
Unicellular
Prokaryotic
Structure of protista
Unicellular
Eukaryotic
State body structure of Fungi
Unicellular
Eukaryotic
Non chlorophyllous
State body structure of Plantae
Multicellular
Eukaryotic
Autotropic
Body structure of Animalia
Multicellular
Eukaryotic
Heterotropic
