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Olevels Biology Featuress of Five Kingdoms
Olevels Biology Featuress of Five Kingdoms
The first division of living things in the classification system is to put them into one of five kingdoms.
They are:
1. Animals
2. Plants
3. Fungi
4. Protoctists
5. Prokaryotes
Fungi
often unicellular
cells have cell walls (not made of cellulose/ but it is made up of peptidoglycans) and cytoplasm
but no nucleus or mitochondria
Prokaryotes
Protoctist
Types of Nutrition
1. Autotrophic Nutrition
When the organisms make their own food by photosynthesis.
Plants are autotrophs
2. Heterotrophic Nutrition
When the organisms feed on organic matter made by other organisms
3. Saprophytic Nutrition
4. Parasitic Nutrition
Parasites live and feed on living host and cause damage to the host