205 KiB
205 KiB
G11 Pre-AP Biology
| Ranks | Living Things |
|---|---|
| Domain | Bacteria, Eukarya, Archaea |
| Kingdom | Archaea, Bacteria, Animalia, Fungi, Protista, Plantae |
| Phylum | |
| Class | |
| Order | |
| Family | |
| Genus | |
| Species |
Taxon are specific names under each rank for organisms that exhibit shared traits.
For clarification, humans and ostriches share domain kingdom and phylum ranks, while they share the taxons eukarya, animalia, and chordata.
Scientific name is written using Genus and species. If name is typed, it should be italicized, else underlined. Costasiella kuroshima
| Domain | Archaea | Bacteria | Eukarya | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingdom | Archaea | Bacteria | Protista | Plantae | Fungi | Animalia |
| Type of cells | Prokaryotic | Prokaryoticar | Eukaryotic | Eukaryotic | Eukaryotic | Eukaryotic |
| Number of cells | Unicellular | Unicelluar | Mainly unicellular | Multicellular | Mostly multicellular (yeast) | Multicellular |
| Cell structure | No membrane bound organelles, peptidoglycanless cell wall | No membrane bound organelles, peptidoglycan cell wall | Diverse, some have cell walls, some don't, variable cell wall materials | Cellulose cell wall, chloroplasts | Chitin cell wall | No cell wall |
| Nutrition | Heterotroph/ autotroph | Heterotroph/ autotroph |
Heterotroph/ autotroph |
Autotroph | Heterotroph | Hetertroph |
| Primary means of reproduction | Asexually (binary fission) | Asexually (binary fission) | Sexually/asexually | Sexually | Sexually | Sexually |
| Example | Paramecia, amoeba, euglena | Yeast |