It includes unicelular organisms like for example bacterias and
cianobacterias
The organisms from this kingdom share the same characteristics
The cells which form their body are tiny and can be seen only through a
microscope
It has a celular wall which involves the plasmatic membrane that contains the citoplasm
Inside the citoplasm there are ribosomes which make proteins.Theyare without mitocondrias
and cloroplasts
They can have flagellum or fimbrias for moving
The vital functions from MONERAN kingdom
NUTRITION:Their nutrition can be autotrophic which is divided in photosynthetic or chemyosinthetic(they make their own food),or heterotrophic that is divided in parasitic bacteria,(obtain energy but are harmful
for they host),symbiotic,(they both benefit) and saprophytic,(obtain energy from organic matter)
They don't have sensory organs
Their reproduction is asexual by bipartition
Why bacterias and cianobacterias are important ?
They keep the development of ecosystems
They decompose organic matter,so they recycle matter for the ecosystems
They make beneficous asociations
They can produce some deseases,but they are (most of
the times) good for our health
Monera's represents have different shapes and sizes.
Bacterias
Cynobacterias
PROTOCTIST'S KINGDOM:
Unicelular and pluricellular living things such as eucariot cells.The
pluricellular organisms of this kingdom don't have diferenciated tissues
Protoctist's organisms can be autotrophic such as algaes,or heterotrophic like protozoos
Algaes are eucariotic and autotrophic organisms that can be unicellular or pluricellular
Their cells usually contain a cellular wall on the outside of the plasmatic membrane and in the citoplasm there are:
Ribosomes,mitocondrias,vacuols and chloroplasts
Unicellular algaes don't need to have
a cellular wall always
They usually can move thanks to flagels
or they can squirm too
Pluricellular algae's cells always contain a cellular wall which
keeps their corporal structure
Most of these types of algae can't move.
Algae's vital functions:
Their nutrition can be autotrophic photosynthetic thanks to the clorofile they contain
They have relation-ships for stimulating with such as for example the sun's light for the one they respond depending of the growing they have depending ot the seasons of
the yer or to the salinity.They can answer with a movement which goes forwards and backwords.
They have asexual reproduction by fragmentation or spores,but they can have sexual reproduction too through gamets
Algae's clasification
Green algaes: Acuatic ,fresh-water,unicellular or pluricellular
Importances of algaes for live:They can produce organic matter
from inorganic and they can produce too oxygen for all living things
They keep ecosystems.
They are used for human nutrition
From them you can get products for the industry
DID YOU KNOW?:Algaes are very important for our live,but there are some type of algaes that are harmful for our health
because they produce the red tides,which are tides of a red colour that are toxic for all animals and for
us too.
Brown algaes:Acuatic,pluricellular and the biggest size between all algaes
Red algaes:Acuatic and pluricellular.It isn't usual to see this type of algaes in
freshwater or them to be unicellular.
Protoctists are eucariot organisms,generally unicellular organisms.
Their cells can present:
Ribosomes
Mitochondrias
Vacuoles
They can usually move ,and that is thanks to cilium,flagels or pseudupodia.
Protist's vital functions:
They have and hetrotrophic nutrition,some of them are preadtors,and others are
detritivores (scavengers).
They react to temperature changes,luminous intensity,salinity etc by movements
Their reproduction can be asexual by bipartition or pluripartition(two identical daughter cells),or by sexual reproduction where the
conjugation is performed by two inviduals which make a temporal union for getting a copy of their genetic material.
Protoctist's classification:
Ciliated protozoos:They move with cilium ,such as paramecium
Flagellates:They move with flagels, such as trichomonas
Rhizopods:They move with pseudopodia ,such as ameba
Sporozoa:They cannot move, such as Plasmodiom which produces malaria
FUNGUS KINGDOM:
It includes eucariotic and
heterotrophic organisms
that can be pluricellular or
unicellular.Their cells have
a cellular wall of a variated
composition
Fungies cannot move.
The pluricellular fungie's bodies is formed by some thin tubes known as hyphas,and in
set,they form the mycelium
Mushrooms are spores productor organs created after some pluricellular fungies reproduce.
Unicellular fungies usually have a round shape
Vital functions from Fungie's kingdom
Their nutrition is heterotrophic and can be divided into saprohytes,parasites or symbiotic
They can react to humidity and to disolve substances from the environment
Their reproduction can be asexual by gemmation in unicellular living
beings and through spores the rest.Sexual reproduction can be produced
too by the formation of sexual cells,or by the union of different hyfas and
different nucleous.
Some other types of fungies...
Yeast
Are unicellular and they decompose organic substances by fermentation
Moulds
Are pluricellular and their hyfas gro up above organic matter decomposing it
Fungies that form mushrooms
Are pluricellular and they decompose the forest's leaf litter, so in autumn or
spring, they produce mushroooms
Why are fungies so important?
Are important for the performance of terrestrial ecosystems and too for our economy
They mantein the performance of terrestrial ecosystems:A lot of fungies decompose the forest's organic matter and
they form an asociation known as mycorrhiza where the plant gives to the fungi organic matter , and then the fungi
helps the plant in it's nutrition giving to it water and mineral salts
They're used for the human nutrition: Examples:We produce beer,and wine with
the yeast,nd the fungie's mushrooms are always used as human food
They produce antibiotics:For example,Alexander Fleming discovered the first
antibiotic while he was working with some moulds from the Penicillium
gender,so it's very important because the fungi produces that the bacterias which are around it to disappear
VIRUSES
They're acellular living things because they don't have the usual cell structure .They present genetic material, but they don't have citoplasm and organuls.
Viruse's characteristics
Their geneti material can be of ADN or of ARN,other type of nucleic acid
A layer of proteins known as capsid which goes around and protects the genetic material
Some of them have a membranous wrap which goes arond the capsid
Viruse's vital functions:
Their main function is reproduction,because they don´t need nutrition,so that's the main function they need to do for getting their genetic material inside living thing's cells
Their reproduction cycle includes the following periods
1. The virus binds to the cellular membrane
2. The whole virus or the genetic material are introduced inside the cell
3. The cell follows the information of the genetic material of the virus and
reproduceds it's nucleic acids and the capsid's protein
4. When they form the viral components,they create more viruses that are
released and can produce the destruction of the parasitized cell
However the viruse's reproduction is harmful for all the living things because they produce diseases such as AIDS,flu,measles...
Because of this we prevent all these diseases produced by viruses using vaccinations.