The Five Kingdom Classification

All are:

• multicellular
• eukaryotic
• lacking a cell wall
• heterotrophic (consume ready-made organic molecules)
• store carbohydrates as glycogen
• store lipids as fats

Most ingest food into a digestive system.

Most are capable of locomotion

Examples:

• flatworms
• arthropods
• chordates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals)

All are:

• multicelluar
• eukaryotic
• contain a cellulose cell wall
• photosynthetic (contain chloroplasts and chlorophyll)
• autotrophic (produce their own food from inorganic material)
• store carbohydrates as starch
• store lipids as oils

Examples:

• mosses
• ferns
• conifers
• flowering plants

Most are multicelluar

All are:

• eukaryotic (organised into filaments or hypae and frequently multinucleate)
• have a chitin cell wall
• lysotrophic (secrete enzymes to digest organic materials outside their cells and absorb the products)
• store carbohydrates as glycogen
• store lipids as oils

Examples:

• yeast
• moulds
• toadstools

Some are:

• unicellular
• filamentous
• multicellular
• possess cell walls (cellulose or non-cellulose)
• contain chlorophyll
• motile

All are eukaryotic.

Examples:

• seaweeds
• amoeba

All are:

• microscopic
• prokaryotic
• lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
• DNA is naked and circular
• ribosomes are smaller
• peptidoglycan cell walls

Cell division occurs by simple fission

Examples:

• bacteria
• blue-greens
• hot spring bacteria