Classify the following organisms based on their characteristics

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Characteristics:

Most diverse kingdom.

Eukaryotes that are not fungi, plants or animals.

Slide 1

List the 2 specific examples.

Characteristics:

Prokaryotic cells

Can live in extreme environments

Cell wall does not contain peptidoglycan

Slide 2 List the 2

environments you can find

these in.

Characteristics:

Has roots, stems & leaves

Reproduce with spores

Ferns (most common type)

Club Mosses, Horsetails, Whisk Ferns

Slide 3

How do these obtain

energy?

Characteristics: Most are multicellular with hyphae

Slide 4 Definition of Hyphae (use your book)?

Characteristics:

Has a phyla with mostly insects

Exoskeleton

Heterotrophs

Slide 5

In what phylum would these organisms be found?

Characteristics:

Decomposers

Lack chlorophyll

Slide 6 What makes this Kingdom different from Plantae?

Characteristics:

Prokaryotic cells

Some cause diseases and decay.

3 basic shapes

Slide 7

In what domain are

these found?

In what phylum do all these organisms belong?

Slide 8

Can move

Heterotrophic

Macroscopic

Slide 9

Slime molds / Sporozoans

What makes this Kingdom different from the Kingdom

that contains yeast?

Characteristics:

Heterotrophs -

Saprophytes live on dead organisms

Parasites

Slide 10

In which phyla would you find “ascocarps” like: mildews, yeasts, and

morels ?

Characteristics:

Have to eat food

Macroscopic

Multicellular

Slide 11

What is the name of

the group within this Kingdom

that has an internal

skeleton?

Characteristics:

Cannot move from place to place

Pines and spruces

Slide 12

What Domain do

these organisms belong to- and why?

Slide 13Characteristics:

Do not have tissues

Specialized cells

Sessile

What Phylum?

Characteristics:

“spiny skinned”

Most can regenerate limbs

Slide 14

What Phylum are these organisms found in?

List an example.

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Characteristics:

Does not have tissues

Specialized cells

Slide 15

What Phylum are these organisms in?

Characteristics: Angiosperms

Produce seeds and flowers

Fruit enable the dispersal of seeds

Slide 16What

Domain? Why?

Slide 17 Characteristics:

Some parasitic.

Some free living.

Ribbonlike bodies.

What Phylum?

Give 2 examples.

Characteristics:

Very diverse phylum

External skeleton

Jointed appendages

Slide 18

What Phylum?

What Kingdom are these organisms in?

Slide 19

What Phylum?

Name 2 examples.

Slide 20