Variety of Living Organisms Flashcards
Description of animal kingdom
-Animals are multicellular
-They don’t have chloroplasts so they can’t photosynthesise
-They don’t have cell walls
-They store carbohydrates as glycogen
Describe characteristics of plant kingdom
-Plants are multicellular
-They have chloroplasts allowing them to photosynthesize
-Their cell walls are made of cellulose
-Plants store carbohydrates as sucrose or starch.
Description of Fungi kingdom
-Some fungi are single-celled
-Others have a body called a mycelium (made of hyphae)
-Can’t photosynthesise
-Cell walls made of chitin
-They food by saprotrophic nutrition
-Carbs stored as glycogen.
Description of protoctists
-Single-celled
-Some have chloroplasts and are similar to plant cells
-Others are more like animal cells
Description of Bacteria
-They have a cell wall, cell membrane and cytoplasm, plasmids
-They don’t have a nucleus
-They have a circular chromosome of DNA
-Some can photosynthesise
-Most bacteria feed off other organisms
Structure of a bacteria cell
Description of Viruses
-Smaller than bacteria
-They can only reproduce inside living cells
-They infect all types of living organisms
-They have a protein surrounding genetic material (DNA or RNA)
-They are not living organisms
What are pathogens
Pathogens are organisms that cause disease
Example of a flowering plant
Maize
Example of a herbaceous legume
Peas or beans
Animals have _____ __________ allowing them to move from one place to another.
Nervous co-ordination
Examples of Fungi:
Mucor (hyphal structure)
Yeast (Single-celled)
Example of protoctists with chloroplasts
Plasmodium
Example of protoctists without chloroplasts
Chlorella
What is the protoctist responsible for causing malaria
Plasmodium
