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Midterm Review – Six Kingdoms
KINGDOMS BROCHURE SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
Note: Be able to name the six kingdoms from memory and list characteristics of each
Kingdom: Archaebacteria
 Unicellular
 Prokaryotic
 Autotrophic or heterotrophic
 Chemical make-up is different from Bacteria Kingdom
 Live in extreme or harsh environments – hot springs with boiling water, with no oxygen, ocean
floor
Kingdom: Eubacteria or Bacteria
 Unicellular
 Prokaryotic
 Autotrophic or heterotrophic
 Different chemical make-up than that of Archaea
 Live everywhere
 “True bacteria” – what you think of as bacteria
 Be able to list ways that bacteria are harmful and helpful
Kingdom: Protist
 Eukaryotic
 Most are unicellular, some are multicellular (seaweed)
 Autotrophic or heterotrophic
 Live in moist surroundings
 “junk drawer” or “odds and ends” kingdom
Examples: amoeba, paramecium, euglena
Be familiar with the cell structure of these organisms, and the way in which they move and obtain food
Kingdom: Fungi
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Midterm Review – Six Kingdoms
 Eukaryotic
 Most are multicellular, yeast are unicellular
 Absorptive heterotrophs -- meaning that fungi are heterotrophic, and excrete chemicals that
digest their food outside their bodies and then absorb the digested food.
 Have cell walls
 Reproduce with spores, yeast reproduce asexually by budding
 Play a major role as decomposers
Examples: mold, mushrooms, mildew, fungi that grow on dead trees
Kingdom: Plant
 Multicellular
 Eukaryotic
 Autotrophic
 Cannot move from place to place
 Have cell walls, chloroplasts and large water vacuoles
 Reproduce with seeds, some with spores
 Some are vascular, some are nonvascular
Examples: moss, fern, flowering plants, conifers, oak and maple trees, pine trees etc.
Kingdom: Animal
 Multicellular
 Eukaryotic
 Heterotrophic
 Most can move from place to place
 Largest kingdom with over 1 million known species
Examples: sea sponge, jellyfish, insects, fish, frog, man
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