Classificationof Living Things Biology Kingdoms
Classificationof Living Things Biology Kingdoms
Classificationof Living Things Biology Kingdoms
Animalia is the kingdom of animals. Animals include invertebrates like insects, and
vertebrates like mammals and birds. Six important aspects of animals are:
1. Animals are multicellular, which means they have many cells.
2. Animal cells do not have cell walls.
3. Animals consume food.
4. All animals reproduce sexually.
5. Animals are able to move at some time during their life.
6. Animals have nervous systems, and respond to the things they sense around them.
Fungi are multicellular decomposers like mold, moss, and mushrooms, but a few of
them can be single celled, like yeast. Fungi digest their food outside themselves, and
then absorb it. This process decomposes dying things and turns them into useful things
like soil. They do not produce food through photosynthesis like plants do, so they don’t
need light!
Protista has the sound tea in it, and has such a variety of many organisms that fit into
one pot, orkingdom, that is. Most are single celled organisms, but some have many
cells, like algae. Protista have anucleus, organelles, and sometimes chloroplasts. Some
can move with little hair-like things called cilia, ortail-like flagella. They get their food
either through photosynthesis like plants do, ingestion like animalsdo, or both!
Archaea (has the sound ark in the beginning!) are single celled organisms without a
nucleus that have theability to live through all sorts of extreme conditions and tem-
peratures. Single celled organisms are so small you cannot see them without a micro-
scope.
Bacteria are single celled organisms that have a cell wall, but they do not have organ-
elles or an organized nucleus. Some are helpful, producing vitamins or food. Others
are harmful, and cause disease, so wash your hands before you eat in case you picked
up some unhelpful bacteria!
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6 Kingdoms of Living Things
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