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Exercise – Animal classification
Aristotle studied structural features of many living things. He used some
features – movement, method of feeding and growth patterns – to divide
living things.
The table below gives information about two of these features.
Remember, Aristotle didn't know about photosynthesis.
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Movement
Method of feeding
land plants
stay in one place
feed from soil
mushrooms
stay in one place
feed from soil
seaweed
stay in one place or carried
by water
feed from water
mould
stay in one place or move
very slowly
feed from dead organisms
animals
most move from place to
place
feed from dead organisms
Aristotle divided the organisms into two groups called kingdoms.
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Use Aristotle's information in the previous table to divide land
plants, mushrooms, seaweed, mould and animals into the two
kingdoms below.
Plant kingdom
Animal kingdom
Choose one (if appropriate)
Choose one (if appropriate)
Choose one (if appropriate)
Choose one (if appropriate)
Choose one (if appropriate)
Choose one (if appropriate)
Choose one (if appropriate)
Choose one (if appropriate)
Choose one (if appropriate)
Choose one (if appropriate)
Did you find any organism(s) difficult to classify into only one
kingdom? Explain.
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Aristotle's classification of living things into a plant kingdom and an
animal kingdom was important in the development of modern
biology. Why?
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Biologists today do not use Aristotle's two kingdoms. Why do you
think his classification system has been rejected?
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