KINGDOMS
By: AnLi French
Mr. Jones
1st Period
WHY IS SOMETHING ALIVE (BIOTIC
FACTORS)?
It has to grow and develop
 It has to use energy (food)
 It has to reproduce
 It has to be organized
 And it has to respond to it’s environment
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All living organisms have a classification which
ends with a scientific name called a Binomial
Nomenclature.
ANIMAL KINGDOM
Part I
WHAT MAKES AN ANIMAL?
What makes an organism an animal?
 Multicellular
 Eukaryotic
 Obtain Food and Oxygen
 Homeostasis
 Sexually Reproduce
 Heterotrophic
 Motile
 Tissues & Organs
INTERESTING FACTS
One of the 1st two kingdoms created by Aristotle
 Animals create rules and systems to give them a
better chance to survive
 Most diverse Kingdom
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PICTURES
E. dorsatum or the
North American
porcupine
O. orca or a
Killer Whale or
Orca
A. forsteri or the
Emperor Penguin
PLANT KINGDOM
Part II
WHAT MAKES A PLANT?
Photosynthetic
 Multicellular
 Eukaryotic
 Autotrophic
 Nonvascular or Vascular
 Has Cell Walls

INTERESTING FACTS
Study of plants is called Botany
 One of the 1st two original Kingdoms created by
Aristotle
 The formula for photosynthesis is C+H2o+Light=
Sugar, E, and O
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PICTURES
D. muscipula or
Venus Flytrap
R. chinensis or the
China Roses
S. sempervirens
or California
Redwood Trees
PROTIST
Part III
WHAT MAKES A PROTIST?
An organism that does not fit into any other
Kingdom.
 Classified into types
 Animal Like
 Plant Like
 Fungi Like
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INTERESTING FACTS
Protists, such as Kinetoplastids and
Apicomplexa, cause many diseases such as
malaria and sleeping sickness
 Environments that have liquid water in them are
active with protists
 Algae, a plant like protist, is a very important
primary producer in many ecosystems.
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PICTURES
FUNGI
Part IV
WHAT MAKES A FUNGI?
Eukaryotic
 Cell walls made of Chitin
 Multicellular
 Heterotrophic through Absorption
 Sexual & Asexual Reproduction

INTERESTING FACTS
Thought to be plants before the invention of the
microscope.
 Fungi can be very helpful (yeast), or very harmful
(mold)
 Many fungi are very important as decomposers in
ecosystems
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PICTURES
EUBACTERIA
Part V
WHAT MAKES EUBACTERIA?
Unicellular
 Prokaryotic
 Heterotrophic or Autotrophic
 Pathogenic
 Parasitic

INTERESTING FACTS
You can tell the species of bacteria by it’s shape
 Reproduces by splitting
 Many of these cause infection and live inside an
organism’s body
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PICTURES
E. Coli
ARCHAEBACTERIA
Part VI
WHAT MAKES ARCHABACTERIA?
Unicellular
 Prokaryotic
 Heterotrophic through Absorption
 Extromophyle
 Microscopic
 Very rare

INTERESTING FACTS
Classified into two categories: Salt Lovers & Heat
Lovers
 Archaebacteria are very similar to Eubacteria
execpt that Archaebacteria like extreme
environments.
 Organisms that are classified into this Kingdom
have been around the longest on Earth
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PICTURES