How are other organisms

classified

Chapter 1 lesson 4
 Plants
• Plants differ from animals –they use sunlight to
make their own food.
• Plants are many celled organisms .
• Scientists classified plants after they asked
themselves:

1. How does the plant transport water and minerals?

(vascular or nonvascular )?
2. How does the plant reproduce ? ( flowering or non
flowering ) ?
 Vascular plants
Plants are classified according to how
they transport water and minerals.
• A tube like structure connect all the organs
of the plant (leaves , stem and roots )
• Water moves up and down these tubes.
 Nonvascular plants
 Plants without the tube like system.
 Do not have true roots, stem or leaves and they grow law to
the ground.
 They pass water and nutrients from one cell to another.
 Water and minerals do not move very fast or very far.
Mosses
 Mosses

• Very small and very tiny leaves.

• Have no flowers or seeds.

(use spores to reproduce).

• Non-vascular plants.
Ferns
 Ferns
• Have feathers like leaves.

• In a certain stage they will have leaves

called fiddlehead.

• Vascular plant so it can grow larger

than the mosses.

• They use spores to

reproduce
Conifers
 Conifers

• Vascular plants that use cones

and seeds .

• Have special leaves which look

like needles .

• Pines, firs and spruce are

conifers .
 Flowering Plants

• The most colorful phylum of plant.

• Have flowers and seeds .

• Vascular plants .
 Flowering
Mosses Ferns Conifers Plants

Vascular

Seeds

Flowers
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• Neither plants nor animals.

• debates in classifying.

Self reading
 Fungi
• Mushrooms

• Molds

• Yeast
 Kingdoms of Living things
• Fungi
 Mushrooms are not plants because they
don’t make their own food.
 Mushrooms has a hair-like structure to
absorb and digest food.
 Yeast are single-celled fungi.
 Bakers use yeast to make bread.
 Yeast take in sugar from dough and release
carbon dioxide CO2.
• Protists
 Most protists are single celled.
 Algae is a protist live in colonies.
 Algae are food for some animals.
 Some protists live inside the digestive
system of some animals, and help them
digest plants they eat.
• Eubacteria
 They are single-celled organisms.
 They may have many different shapes.
 Some have structure like tail that wiggle
and move them through water.
• Archaebacteria
 They are single-celled organisms.
• Can survive environments that are deadly
to most other organisms.
 They may live in hot acidic springs, or in
salty water
 Fungi Kingdom Protist Kingdom

1. Yeast, Molds and Mushrooms. 1. Algae is an example.

2. They are not plants. 2. Mostly single-celled.
3. Mushrooms have hair-like 3. Algae are food for some animals.
structure. 4. Some help in the digestive process
4. Bakers use yeast in the baking of for some animals.
bread.

Eubacteria Kingdom Archaebacteria Kingdom

1. They are single-celled. 1. They are single-celled.

2. They have different shapes 2. Live in hot acid spring, and salty
(spheres, rods, or spiral) water.
3. Some have tail-like structure.
4. Some are helpful, and some
cause disease.
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