TAXONOMY Flashcards
five-kingdom scheme was proposed by
Robert H. Whitaker
Five kingdoms
Animalia Plantae Fungi Protista Monera
includes almost all multicellular eukaryotic organsim
Kingdom Animalia
Characteristics of Animalia
motile and heterotrophs
consists of all plant organism
Kingdom Plantae
characteristics of Plantae
non motile, autotrophs, cell walls (cellulose)
made up eukaryotic plant-like organism known as fungi
Kingdom Fungi
characteristics of fungi
dont have chloroplast so they cant make their own food saprophytes (food nila is decaying organism) cell wall (chitin)
What organ does fungi use to eat decaying organism
hyphae
made up of all unicellular animal-like and plant-like organism
Kingdom Protista
Example of animal-like protista and why animal like
Amoeba sp, Paramecia sp.
bc they can’t make their own food
Example of plant-like protista and why plant like
Algae
bc they can make their own food
The only animal-like and plant-like protista
Euglena sp.
made up of all the unicellular prokaryotic organism
Kingdom Monera
kingdom Monera is composed of?
bacteria and extremophiles