Fungi
What Kingdom do Fungi belong to?
Kingdom Fungi
What Kingdom are plants in?
Kingdom Plantae
What Kingdom do animals belong to?
Kingdom Animalia
What are animals without a backbone?
Invertebrate
What did scientists create to organize the diversity of all living things?
Cladogram
How do fungi eat?
Hyphae then secrete acids and enzymes that break the surrounding organic material down into simple molecules they can easily absorb
What part of a plant holds it in the dirt and acts like straws? (Absorbs the water and nutrients from the soil)
Roots
All animals are ____cellular ______trophs.
Multicellular Heterotrophs
What are animals called with a backbone?
Vertebrates
True or False: Do animals have a cell wall?
False; they have a cell membrane
What are the thread-like filaments (basic structural units) that make up the body of fungi? (Hint: strings all on the inside)
Hyphae
What part of the plant provides support and holds the plant up so it can get lots of sunlight? (Carries the water and nutrients from the roots to different parts of the plants)
Stem
Animals are ____________________- meaning they feed on other organisms for nutrients
Heterotrophic
What percentage of the world is made up of invertebrates and vertebrates?
99% invertebrates, 1% vertebrates
Plant cell walls are composed of ______?
Cellulose
What are the "roots" of a mushroom called? (Also made of thread-like filaments)
Mycelium
What part of the plant is the site of photosynthesis? (Capture sunlight to make food for the plant)
Leaf
What do animals develop through the process of sexual reproduction?
Zygote
What are internal skeletons called that grow with the animal?
Endoskeleton
What is chitin?
A strong flexible polysaccharide found in cell walls of fungi and exoskeletons of insects/crustaceans; one of the most abundant organic compounds in the Earth
What are fungi cell walls made out of?
Chitin
What is the reproductive part of the plant?
Flower
The closest living relative to animals is called a _____________. (Hint: single-cell, flagellated, bacteria eating organisms found between fungi and animals on the phylogenetic tree of life)
Choanoflagellate
What are the three materials that an endoskeleton can be made of?
Calcium Carbonate, Cartilage, and Bone
What are the five groups of vertebrates?
Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals