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What are the 5 kingdom of animals?Provide 2 example of each kingdom?

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Living organisms are divided into five kingdoms:

Prokaryotae

Protoctista

Fungi

Plantae

Animalia

Prokaryotae

Unicellular and Microscopic.

Non-membrane bound (no nuclear membrane, no ER, no mitochondia).

Cell wall made of murein.

Examples: Bacteria or Cyanobacteria (photosynthesising bacteria).

Protoctista

Mainly small eukaryotic organisms.

Many live in aquatic environments.

This is usually the kingdom where organisms which aren’t animals, plants or fungi go.

Examples: Algae, slime moulds and the malaria causing Plasmodium.

Fungi

Eukaryotic

Multicellular

Cell wall made of chitin.

The members of this kingdom don’t possess photosynthetic pigments and are therefore heterotrophic.

Examples: Mushroom, Mold, Puffball

Plantae

Eukaryotic

Multicellular

Cell wall made of cellulose.

Members of the plantae group contain photosynthetic pigment and gain their energy through it and are therefore autotrophic.

Animalia

Eukaryotic

Multicellular

Heterotropic

The members of this kingdom can be split into two groups, vertebrates and invertebrates. The diagram below shows the different subsections of the animalia

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