How Organisms are Classified

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How Organisms are Classified

• Chapter 2 Section 2

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Classifying

• Living Things more alike than like non living
  things
• Kingdoms Groups classifying living things
• Plants, Animal, Protist, Fungi and Monera

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Classifying

• Classified based on similarities
• Taxonomy Science of classifying living things
  based on features

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The Plant Kingdom

• Examples Grasses, trees, ferns, mosses,
  flowers
• Dont move, make food using sunlight
• Many cells divided into tissues and organs

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The Animal Kingdom

• Examples Dogs, Turtles, Fish, Coral, Sponges,
  insects
• Cannot make food eat other living things

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The Animal Kingdom

• Move to capture food moving also helps w/
  shelter, escaping danger mating
• Many cells tissues organs

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The Protist Kingdom

• Microorganisms Organisms too small to be seen
  w/o a microscope
• Did not fit well into either plant or animal
  kingdom

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The Protist Kingdom

• Most only one cell
• Some make food/ others absorb outside food
  sources

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The Protist Kingdom

• Plant like Protist
• Algae, Seaweed, pond scum
• Algae Versatile
• Live in lakes, streams, ponds oceans
• Produce O2 for Water

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The Protist Kingdom

• Protozoan
• Animal like
• Some with animal and plant like properties
• Live in water, soil, animals

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The Protist Kingdom

• Protozoan(cont.)
• Most harmless, but some cause infections
• Giarda and Plasmodia(Malaria)
• Move to get food flagella, cilia, pseudopod

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The Protist KingdomExamples

• Eulena Animal/Plant Traits

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The Protist KingdomExamples

• Paramecium Animal Traits

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The Protist KingdomExamples

• Paramecium Animal Traits

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The Fungi Kingdom

• An organism that has many cells and decompses
  material for its food
• Single fungus
• Many cells
• Do not move, Do not make food

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The Fungi Kingdom

• Important for ecosystems
• Decompose (breakdown) dead plants and animals
• Some can be a parasite
• Absorbs food from living organism and harms it
• Ringworm, Athletes foot

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The Monera Kingdom

• Monera Alone
• One kind of organism Bacteria
• One celled
• Some move, Some make food
• Do Not have organelles
• Examples Strep, E. coli