Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Characteristics of the Five Kingdoms -
GCSE Biology
- Animalia
- Characteristics
- No cell wall
- Multicellular
- Heterotrophic feeder
- No chlorophyll - do not
photosynthesise
- Examples
- Jellyfish
- Worms
- Arthropods
- Echinoderms
- Fish
- Amphibia
- Reptiles
- Birds
- Mammals
- Plantae
- Characteristics
- Cellulose cell wall
- Autotrophic
- Photosynthesise - have chlorophyll
- Do not move
- Have nuclei
- Examples
- Algae
- Mosses
- Conifers
- Flowering plants
- Fungi
- Examples
- Moulds
- Mushrooms
- Yeast
- Puffballs
- Shelf/bracket fungi
- Characteristics
- Chitin cell wall
- Reproduce using spores
- Feed saprophytically - off dead matter
- Have nuclei
- Most cannot move
- Protoctista
- Examples
- Amoeba
- Paramecium
- Diatom
- Characteristics
- Usually unicellular
- Can be multicellular, e.g. kelp
- Eukaryotic - have a nucleus
- Some can move (cilia, flagella,
pseudopodia) while others cannot
- Mainly live in aquatic environments
- Prokaryotae
- Characteristics
- Peptidoglycan cell wall
- No nucleus
- Non-membrane bound
- Microscopic
- Examples
- Bacteria
- Cyanobacteria
- Blue-green algae