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The Six Kingdom System
Biologists have accumulated a vast amount of information on Earth’s estimated 1.5 million species of organisms. Based on this
information, taxonomists have developed various classification systems that group organisms according to their similarities. Many
textbooks use the five kingdom system. The six kingdom system of classification is used in our textbook. Our text, along with many
other sources, divides the Kingdom Monera into two kingdoms: Archaebacteria and Eubacteria. These kingdoms include the bacteria
that are found in Kingdom Monera
Fill in the table below by selecting terms from the following list: multi-cellular, unicellular, autotrophic, heterotrophic,
chemotrophic, prokaryotic, eukaryotic, anaerobic, aerobic, fermentation
Kingdom
Example
# Cells
Prokaryote/
Eukaryote
How it
obtains
energy
Aerobic/
Anaerobic
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
Key Definitions and Terms:
Vocabulary Term Definition
Unicellular
Multi-cellular
Prokaryotic
Eukaryotic
Autotrophic
Heterotrophic
Chemotrophic
Photosynthesis
Anaerobic
Aerobic
Fermentation
Associated Kingdoms
Comparison Chart:
Kingdoms Animalia and Fungi
share these three characteristics
Kingdoms Plantae and Fungi
share these two characterstics
1.
1.
2.
2.
3.
Kingdoms Animalie, Fungi, and
Plantae all share this
characteristic
1.