1. Five Kingdoms of Living Things
The Amazing Diversity Of Living Systems

2. What are KINGDOMS? In the naming systems that biologists use,
the broadest categories of life are kingdoms.

3. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
The organization of living things can be seen like a pyramid or tree with seven major levels or categories:

4. TAXONOMY: the branch of science that studies and names living things.
Why do we classify things?
Classification provides scientists and students a way to sort
and group organisms for easier study.
It helps us understand how organisms are related and connected.
Classification helps scientists predict evolutionary tendencies.

5. Kingdom Monerans Most ancient forms of life
One-celled organisms without a nucleus (prokaryotic)
Can be animal like - must absorb food to survive
Can be plant like – make their own food through photosynthesis

6. Kingdom Protists Single-celled organisms with a nucleus (Eurkaryotic)
Larger than Bacteria
cytoplasm is more complex
Some are animal like
Some are plant like

7. Monerans and Protist: similarities and differences
microscopic
Single-celled
Some are plant like and can make their own food (autotrophic)
some are animal like and must get food from the environment (heterotrophic)
Differences
Protists have a true nucleus (eukaryote)
Monerans don’t have a true nucleus (prokaryote)

8. Kingdom Fungi Multi-cellular organisms
Cannot make their own food – they absorb nutrients from the environment

9. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT FUNGI
Kingdom Fungi contains single-celled organisms (yeast)as well as
multicelled organisms. (mushrooms, mold)
Mold are multi-cellular fungi. A well known example is
Penicillium was originally used to produce antibiotic penicillin
Fungi absorb food from their environment.

10. Additional Information about Fungi
The mode of nutrition or the manner in which fungi "eat" is called absorption. Among eukaryotes, absorption is unique to the fungi.
They excrete enzymes which digest food.
Digested food is absorbed by fungus.
Fungi are decomposers.
Additional Information about Fungi
How do they eat?

11. Kingdom of Plants complex muliti-cellular organisms
can trap the energy of sunlight by photosynthesis (autotrophs)
spend entire life in one place - no locomotion
move their bodies to capture the most sunlight

12. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT PLANTS
Photosynthesis is the process that allows plants to take energy from the Sun
and create sugars.
photosynthesis happens in the chloroplast,
organelles in the cells.

13. PLANTS Plants also have cell walls.
While cell membranes might be around every cell,
cell walls made of cellulose are only found around plant cells.
Cell walls help a plant keep its shape.

14. Animal Kingdom Complex organisms
Cannot make their own food (heterotrophs)
Very active
A huge variety of body types and feeding styles

15. Some characteristics of living organisms.
They have a nucleus (eukaryotes)
They don’t have a nucleus (prokaryotes)
They have chloroplasts
They are single-celled
They are multi-celled
They are decomposers
They are consumers
They lack cell structure but they have genetic material
They can be both single-celled and multi-celled
They are microscopic
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