Transcript Animal Classification

Classification
Classifying Most Living Things
Dichotomous Key
Single-Celled:
Nucleus: Yes-Protists; No-Bacteria.
Makes Own Food: Plants.
Eats food: Yes-Animals; No-Fungi.
Six Kingdoms
Bacteria:
Single celled.
No Nucleus.
Most numerous.
Archaebacteria: ancient.
Eubacteria: modern
Protists:
One or more cells.
Has a nucleus and two or more parts.
Make their own food.
Change food to energy.
Same characteristics as fungi, plants and animals.
Protozoa, Algae, Amoebas, Slime Mold
Fungi:
Two or more parts.
Has nucleus.
Absorb food and breakdown other organisms.
Grow fast and reproduce through spores.
Mushrooms
Plants:
Have many cells.
Have many tissues and organs.
Have cells and chloroplasts.
Make their own food.
Ferns: have roots, stems, and leaves.
Gymnosperms: Vascular and produces seeds.
Plant Kingdom
Vascular plants:
Seed Plants: Angiosperms and Gymnosperms.
Seedless Plants: Ferns and horsetails.
Non-Vascular Plants:
Hornworts, liverworts, and Mosses.
Animals:
Have many cells.
Need oxygen.
Eat food.
Move from place to place.
Reproduce sexually.
Vertebrates: have a backbone.
In-Vertebrates: have no backbone.
Animal Kingdoms
Vertebrates
Fish
Birds
Amphibians
Reptiles
Mammals
Invertebrates
Sponges
Cnidarians
Worms
Insects
Arthropods
Echinoderms
Other phyla
Animal Classification
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species