Classification System of

Organisms
Once upon a time, all living things were
lumped together into two kingdoms,
namely plants and animals
Plant and Animal
• Animals included every living thing that
moved, ate, and grew to a certain size and
stopped growing.

• Plants included every living thing that did

not move or eat and that continued to
grow throughout life.
Five Kingdom Classification
System
• It became very difficult to group some
living things into one or the other, so early
in the past century the two kingdoms were
expanded into five kingdoms:

• Protista (the single-celled eukaryotes);

• Fungi (fungus and related organisms);
• Plantae (the plants);
• Animalia (the animals);
• Monera (the prokaryotes).
• Kingdoms are divided into categories
called phyla, each phylum is divided into
classes, each class into orders, each order
into families, each family into genera, and
each genus into species.
KINGDOM MONERA (monerans) -
Single cell
No true nucleus - prokaryote (genetic material
scattered and not enclosed by a membrane)
Some move (flagellum); others don't

Some make their own food (autotrophic); others

can't make their own food (heterotrophic)

Examples - bacteria
cyanobacteria
KINGDOM PROTISTA (protists)
Single cell
Have a true nucleus – eukaryote
Some move (cilia, flagella, pseudopodia);
others don't
Some are autotrophic; others are
heterotrophic
Examples - amoeba, diatom, euglena,
paramecium, some algae (unicellular), etc
 KINGDOM FUNGI
Multi cellular
Have nuclei

Mainly do not move from place to place

Heterotrophic (food is digested outside of
fungus)

Examples - mushroom, mold, puffball,

shelf/bracket fungus, yeast, etc
 KINGDOM PLANTAE (plants)
Multicellular
Have nuclei
Do not move
Autotrophic

Examples - multicellular algae, mosses,

ferns, flowering plants (dandelions, roses,
etc.), trees, etc
 KINGDOM ANIMALIA (animals )
Multicellular
Have nuclei
Do move
Heterotrophic

Examples - sponge, jellyfish, insect, fish,

frog, bird, man
• Kingdom
• Phylum
• Class
• Order
• Family
• Genus
• Species
 Phylum in Animalia
• Porifera (sponges)
• Cnidaria (jellyfish, hydras, sea anemones, Portuguese man-of-wars,
and corals)
• Platyhelminthes (flatworms, including planaria, flukes, and
tapeworms)
• Nematoda (roundworms, including rotifers and nematodes)
• Mollusca (mollusks, including bivalves, snails and slugs, and
octopuses and squids)
• Annelida (segmented worms, including earthworms, leeches, and
marine worms)
• Echinodermata (including sea stars, sea cucumbers, sand dollars,
and sea urchins)
• Arthropods (including arachnids, crustaceans, millipedes,
centipedes, and insects)
• Chordata (animals with nerve chords - this group includes the
vertebrates)
Classes in Cordata
Homework: make a family tree
 Homework
List of organisms:

Worm, turtle, mouse, centipede, kangaroo,

jellyfish, spider, horse, frog, snake, bird,
cow, whale, shark, gold fish, coral,
Squirrel, dolphin, beetle, snail, starfish and
sponge.
 Class assignment
• Write all the animals under kingdom.
• Place Chordata in the 4th block under
Phylum.
• Write the Classes of Cordata under Class.
• Koala bear and what mammal are related?
Place all the other related mammals in
groups of two or Orders.
 Orders
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