Variation and classification - The five kingdoms
The first big division of living things in the classification
system is to put them into one of five kingdoms. These are
based on what an organism's cells are like. The table shows
the names of the kingdoms and examples of the sort of
organisms they contain.
Kingdom
Protoctists
Prokaryotes
Fungi
Examples

Amoeba

Paramecium

Bacteria

Blue-green algae

Moulds

Mushrooms

Yeast
Kingdom
Examples
Plants
All green plants, including:
Algae, ferns and mosses (plants
that do not produce seeds)
Conifers and flowering plants
(plants that do produce seeds)
Animals
All multicellular animals,
including:
jellyfish, worms, arthropods,
molluscs, echinoderms, fish,
amphibia, reptiles, birds and
mammals