Worksheet 3.

1 – Biodiversity

Bacteria Fungi Plants Animals

Cell wall Yes Yes Yes No

Nucleus No Yes Yes Yes

Photosynthesis No No Yes No

Table 1. Four kingdoms

Groups Features Reproduction Groups
Algae Uni- or
multicellular Sea weeds
Not important
Chloroplasts One celled algae

Plants who make Non-flowering Spores inside

spores Damp places capsules ➢ Mosses
Capsules Spores inside ➢ Liverworts
patches ➢ Ferns
Plants who make Conifers Flowers
seeds Flowering plants Pollen ➢ Angiosperms
Cones ➢ Gymnosperms

Table 2. The Plant kingdom

Class Skin Breathing Reproduction Temperature
Fish Scales Gills Eggs or live- Cold-blooded
bearing

Amphibians Moist and Gills and skin Eggs Cold-blooded

wet Metamorphosis

Reptiles Hard scales Lungs Eggs with Cold-blooded

leathery shells

Birds Feathers Lungs Eggs, hard and Warm-

chalky blooded

Mammals Hairs or fur Lungs Egg cells and Warm-

sperm cells blooded

Table 3. Five classes of vertebrates

 Worksheet 3.1 – Biodiversity

Phylum Symmetry Skeleton Examples

a No
Protozoa

a or radial Endo Bath sponge

Sponges
Radial No Jellyfish, sea
Cnidarians (hydroskeleton) anemone
a No Tapeworm
Flatworm
a No
Nematodes

a No Earthworm
Segmented worms

Bilateral (snail Some, shells inside Snail, slug,

Molluscs asymmetry) or outside octopus, squid
Radial Endo Starfish, sea urchin
Echinoderms

Bilateral Exo Insects, lobster,

Arthropods arachnids
a Endo, backbone Birds, mammals
Vertebrates

Table 4. Eight phyla

Class Insects Spiders Crustaceans Centipedes Millipedes

3 2 1 1, but 1, but
Parts segmented segmented

6 8 8-40 ± 80 ± 700
Legs (more than (more than
10) 10)
Table 5. Arthropods

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