Name: ________________________________
Date: _________________________________
THE SIX KINGDOMS
AND THREE DOMAINS OF LIFE
Guided Notes
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SIX KINGDOMS OF LIFE
1. Who was the father of taxonomy? __________________________
2. Into what two kingdoms did he divide all forms of life? ___________________ and __________________.
3. What two new discoveries helped shape the development of the kingdoms of life?
1) ____________________________________________________________________________________
2) ____________________________________________________________________________________
4. Timeline for the development of the six kingdoms of life.
DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF EACH KINGDOM
Kingdom Plantae
5. Are they unicellular or multicellular? _________________________
6. How do they obtain food? ___________________________
7. What other things are distinctive about this kingdom? ________________________
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Kingdom Animalia
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Are they unicellular or multicellular? _________________________
Are their cells surrounded by cell walls? __________
How do they obtain food? _______________________________________________________
Where can you find members of this kingdom? __________________________________________________
Kingdom Fungi
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How do they obtain food? ___________________________
How are they different from Kingdom Plantae? ______________________________________
Do they have cell walls? ________ If so, what is distinctive about their cell walls? _______________________
Where will you most likely find members of this kingdom? _________________________________________
Kingdom Eubacteria
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Are they unicellular or multicellular? _________________________
Are they prokaryotic or eukaryotic? _________________________
How do they reproduce? _________________________________________
Do they have cell walls? ________ If so, what is distinctive about their cell wall? _______________________
Though many are ______________________, some can cause _________________ like strep throat.
Kingdom Archaebacteria
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Are they unicellular or multicellular? _________________________
Are they prokaryotic or eukaryotic? _________________________
How are their cell walls different from those of Kingdom Eubacteria? _________________________________
Where can you find them? ___________________________________________________________________
____________ have been known to cause disease.
Kingdom Protista
26. What organisms get placed in this kingdom?_______________________________________
27. What three other kingdoms do members of this kingdom resemble?
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28. Classifying members of this group is difficult because they exhibit a variety of different and even opposing
characteristics like:
a) You can find them with cell walls AND ____________________________.
b) They can be _______________________ AND photosynthetic.
c) They can be unicellular AND ____________________________.
d) They can reproduce ___________________ AND ___________________.
e) Most are ______________________ but SOME are ______________________.
THE THREE DOMAIN SYSTEM AND MODERN TAXONOMY
29. What is Carl Woese famous for? ______________________________________________
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30. He renamed eubacteria ______________________ and he renamed archaebacteria
____________________
31. Hey used __________________________ as well as the analysis of
_______________________ to help define the ___________________ system of life.
32. What domain was protists, fungi, plants and animals put into? ______________________