A Look at Diversity

The Five Kingdoms

The Five Kingdoms

1. Animalia2. Plantae3. Fungi4. Protista or Protoctista5. Bacteria

1.Kingdom Animalia• Multicellular – “made up of many cells”• Obtain food/energy by eating and

digesting• Reproduce sexually• Can live in many different environments

o Freshwater, soil, land, jungles, houses!• HUGE range of sizes

o Microscopic worms to whales

 

2. Kingdom Plantae• Multicellular• Obtain energy by converting sun energy

into their own “food” a.k.a. photosynthesis• Reproduce sexually! Really!• Come in diverse forms in a HUGE range

of sizes o Mosses all the way to giant sequoias

3. Kingdom Fungi• Also multicellular but some fungi (like

yeast) are organisms made of a single cell• Obtain energy/food “opposite” from the

way animals do…• Hugely diverse!

4. Kingdom Protista• Live in water, moist habitats, soil, on

trees, inside other organisms

• Diverse ways that protists:o Reproduceo Obtain food/energyo Are shaped (and size varies, too)o Live their lives!

• Diseases include malaria, giardia..

5. Kingdom Bacteria• Single celled• Come in many different shapes• Can live in any environment

o soil, really hot areas, places with little oxygen, etc...

• Some obtain food/energy from the environment

• Some obtain energy by converting the sun’s energy (photosynthesis)

5. Kingdom Bacteria• Used for environmental clean-up efforts.

• Reproduce by dividing in two (to produce two “daughter” bacteria/cells)

• Some exchange small amounts of DNA