Features of organisms

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What are the five kingdoms?
Animals
Plants
Fungi
Protoctista
Prokaryotes
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What are the main features of all animals?
They are multicellular
They have a nuclease but no cell wall or chloroplasts.
They feed on other organic substances.
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What does an animal cell contain?
Nucleus
Cell membrane
Mitochondria
Cytoplasm
Ribosomes
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What are the main features of plants?
They are multicellular.
They have a nucleus, chloroplasts and a cellulose cell wall.
They produce their own food through photosynthesis.
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What do plant cells contain?
Nucleus
Cellulose cell wall
Mitochondria
Chloroplasts
Ribosomes
Vacuole
Cell membrane
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What are the 2 main categories in the animal kingdom?
Vertebrates- organisms with a backbone
Invertebrates- organisms without a backbone
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What are the five classes of vertebrates?
Mammals
Birds
Reptiles
Amphibians
Fish
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What are the main features of mammals?
Fur on skin
Have a placenta
Young feed on milk
External ears
Endothermic
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What are the main features of birds?
Skin covered with feathers.
They have 2 wing and legs instead of forelimbs.
Lay eggs with hard shells.
Endothermic.
Have a beak.
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What are the main features of reptiles?
Dry scales attached to skin.
Lay eggs with rubbery shells.
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What are the main features of amphibians?
Smooth, most skin.
Adults live on land (have gills)
Larvae live in water.
Lay eggs without shells.
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What are the main features of fish?
They have gills.
Lay eggs without shells underwater.
Loose wet scales.
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What is the main feature of invertebrates?
They do not possess a backbone.
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What are the different classes of invertebrates?
Myriapods
Insects
Arachnids
Crustaceans
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What are the main features of myriapods?
Their body is divided into many segments.
Each segment has a pair of legs.
One pair of antennae
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What are the main features of insects?
Body consists of three segments; body, thorax and abdomen.
3 pairs of legs.
2 pairs of wing.
One pair of antennae.
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What are the main features of arachnids?
2 part body- cephalothorax and abdomen.
Four pairs of jointed legs.
No antennae.
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What are the main features of crustaceans?
More than four fairs of jointed legs.
Two pairs of antennae.
Chalky exoskeleton made of calcium.
Breathe through gills.
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What are the main features of all fungi?
Are multicellular.
Have nuclei and cell wall (not made from cellulose)
Does not photosynthesize but feeds through saprotrophic or parasitic nutrition.
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What do the cells of fungi contain?
Nucleus
Cell wall
Mitochondria
Ribosomes
Cytoplasm
Cell membrane
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What are the features of protoctists?
They are unicellular.
They all have nuclei, not all have chloroplasts and cell walls.
Some photosynthesize others feed on organic substance made by other organisms.
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What are the main features of prokaryotes?
Often unicellular.
Have cytoplasm and cell walls but no nuclei or mitochondria.
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What do the cells of prokaryotes contain?
Cytoplasm
Cell wall
Cell membrane
Plasmid
Ribosomes
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What types of plants do the plant kingdom contain?
Ferns and flowering plants.
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What are the characteristics of ferns?
Have leaves called fronds.
Reproduce by spores on the underside of fronds.
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What are the characteristics of flowering plants?
Reproduce sexually by means of flowers and seeds.
Seeds are produced inside the ovary.
Can be divided into 2 groups.
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What are the 2 groups in flowering plants?
Monocotyledons and dicotyledons
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How can you distinguish between mocotyledons and dicotyledons?
By their:
Leaves and flowers.
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What are the differences in their flowers?
Monocotyledons have flowers in multiples of 3 while dicotyledons have flowers in the multiples of four or five.
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What are the differences in their leaves?
Monocotyledons have parallel leaf veins while dicotyledons have reticulated leaf veins.
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What are the characteristics of a virus?
They do not belong to any form of classification.
They do not carry out life processes but instead take over a host cell's metabolic pathways in order to reproduce.
Their structure is DNA or RNA in a protein coat.
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