A Look at Diversity The Five Kingdoms

Animalia Plantae Fungi Protista or Protoctista Bacteria The Five Kingdoms Animalia Plantae Fungi Protista or Protoctista Bacteria

1.Kingdom Animalia Multicellular – “made up of many cells” Obtain food/energy by eating and digesting Reproduce sexually Can live in many different environments Freshwater, soil, land, jungles, houses! HUGE range of sizes Microscopic worms to whales

 

2. Kingdom Plantae Multicellular Obtain energy by converting sun energy into their own “food” a.k.a. photosynthesis Reproduce sexually! Really! Come in diverse forms in a HUGE range of sizes Mosses all the way to giant sequoias

3. Kingdom Fungi Also multicellular but some fungi (like yeast) are organisms made of a single cell Obtain energy/food “opposite” from the way animals do… Hugely diverse!

4. Kingdom Protista Live in water, moist habitats, soil, on trees, inside other organisms Diverse ways that protists: Reproduce Obtain food/energy Are shaped (and size varies, too) Live their lives! Diseases include malaria, giardia..

5. Kingdom Bacteria Single celled Come in many different shapes Can live in any environment soil, really hot areas, places with little oxygen, etc... Some obtain food/energy from the environment Some obtain energy by converting the sun’s energy (photosynthesis)

5. Kingdom Bacteria Used for environmental clean-up efforts. Reproduce by dividing in two (to produce two “daughter” bacteria/cells) Some exchange small amounts of DNA