THE VARIETY OF LIVING ORGANISMS

1. PLANTS
They are multicellular Make their own food by the process of photosynthesis as they have chloroplasts in their cells Store carbohydrates as starch (in cells) or sucrose (in fruit or other plant organs) Cell wall made of cellulose Mosses, ferns, maize etc. Are multicellular Cant make their own food as no chloroplasts in their cells Can be broken down into two parts: 1. Vertebrates- animals that have a vertebral column/ backbone e.g. fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals 2. Invertebrates- animals that dont have a vertebral column/ backbone e.g. worms Stores carbohydrates as glycogen usually have nervous coordination and are able to move from one place to another

2. ANIMALS

3. FUNGI
Have cell walls made of chitin Are multicellular (mushrooms, moulds- mucor, toadstool) and unicellular (yeast) Yeast reproduces by budding but Mucor reproduces by producing spores their body is usually organised into a mycelium made from thread-like structures called hyphae the hyphae are not divided into separate cells, the cytoplasm contains many nuclei Dont contain chloroplasts thus cant make their own food Obtains food through saprotrophic nutrition (feed by extracellular secretion of digestive enzymes on to food material and absorption of the organic products) May store carbohydrates as glycogen

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4. PROTOCTIST
These are microscopic single-celled organisms. Some, like Amoeba, that live in pond water, have features like an animal cell and are known as protozoa Others are like plants like Chlorella, which have chloroplasts and are known as algae A pathogenic example is Plasmodium which is responsible for causing malaria.