Prokaryotic

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a microscopic single-celled organism that has neither a distinct nucleus with a membrane nor other specialized organelles. 

Eukaryotes

Eukaryotes

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Characteristics: All animals, plants, fungi and protists. Cells have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles

Protists

Protists

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Characteristics: All are aquatic, mostly Unicellular (algae are multi), heterotophic (can not make its own food) or autotrophic (can make its own food) and has a nucleus.

Plant-Like Protists

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Characteristics: Can move to find/ get food, Heterotrophic (can not make their own food)

Brown Algae

Brown Algae

Green ALgae

Green ALgae

Red Algae

Red Algae

Animal-Like Protists

Zooflagellates

Zooflagellates

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Movement: MOve by beating a long whip like flagella (hair like propellers)

Ciliates

Ciliates

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Movement: Tiny like hair that beat like a boat propelling through water

Sarcodines

Sarcodines

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Movement: Pseudopods (false feet).

Sporozoans

Sporozoans

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Do not move

Fungus-Like Protists

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Saprophytic heterotrophic (digesting food externally and then absorbing it)

Water-Molds

Slime-Molds

Plants

Bryophytes

Bryophytes

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Bryophyte is a traditional name used to refer to all embryophytes that are non-vascular plants, namely the mosses, hornworts, and liverworts.

Seedless

Seedless

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Photosynthesis occurs in the stems of whisk ferns, which lack roots and leaves.

Vascular

Vascular

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plants that have the vascular tissues xylem and phloem include all seed-bearing plants

Gymnosperms

Gymnosperms

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seed-producing plants 

Angiosperm

Angiosperm

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a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel

FUngi

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Characteristics: Chemoheterotophic (cant make their own food), Reproduce thru spores, both sexual and asexual, usally not capable of motions, have cells walls composed of chitin.

Major Phyla

Chytridiomycota

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sexual and asexual spores motile, with posterior flagella (hair like propellers)

Frogs

Zygomycota

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Sexual spores are thick walled resting spores called zygospores

Bread Molds

Ascomycota

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spores borne internally in a sac called an ascus

Sac Fungi

Sac Fungi

Basiciomycota

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spores borne externally on a club-shaped structure called a basidium

Mushrooms

Animals

Arthopods

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hard exoskeleton

Sub Phyla

Checicerates

spiders

Uniramia

butterflies

Crustacea

crabs

Chordates

Vertabrata

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backbone, fish birds reptiles

Cephalochardata

Cephalochardata

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amphioxus (or lanceles)

Urchordata

Urchordata

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tunicates (sea squirts)

Mammals

Morsupials

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babies that are not fully formed, and most marsupial mothers carry their young in pouches until they are more developed. Kangaroos are marsupials.

Monotrems

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lays eggs, platypus

Placentals

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Babies that are nourished by a placenta before being born. A placenta is an organ that allows a fetus to obtain nutrients from the mother's blood while the fetus develops inside the uterus. Humans are placental mammals.

Vertabrates

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animals with backbones or spinal columns

agnatha (jawless)

agnatha (jawless)

chondrionthyes

chondrionthyes

osteichthyes

osteichthyes

Amphibia

Amphibia

aves

aves

Major Phyla

Porifea

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aka sponges; means animal that contains holes; are sessile feeders (stuck to the ground, eating what comes near them); body symmetry: asymetric eg. yellow tube sponge

Cnidaria

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contains cnidocyte or venomous cells that helps collect and transmit sensory information; body symmetry: radial eg. jellyfishes

Mollusca

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one of the largest phyla composed of many diverse organisms; all have a soft body; body structure composed of three parts; body symmetry: bilaterarl eg. octopus, snails, oysters

Phatyhelminthes

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aka flat worms; lacks a coelom and other body cavities; can be found in marine or fresh water; body symmetry: bilateral; eg. tapeworms

Nementoda

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aka the roundworms; very long and narrow; body symmetry: bilateral; eg. ascaris

Annelida

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have long bodies that have segments divided externally by shallow rings; body symmetry: bilateral; eg. earthworms

Echindoermata

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means spiky skin; dwells at the bottom of the ocean floor; body symmetry: radial eg. starfishes, sea lilies, sea urchins

arthopoda

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has jointed appendages (body extensions that give them a wide range of controlled motion); most successful because they are the most diverse, living in a great range of habitats; body symmetry: bilateral; eg. lobsters, centipedes, butterflies, spiders

chordates

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has internal skeletal rod, a complete digestive system, a ventral heart, a closed blood system and a tail; body symmetry: bilateral; eg. sharks, fishes, lizards frogs,humans

Archae

Archae

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Characteristics: Unicellular (single celled), cells are plasmid (cell that can replicate independently of the chromosomes), and asexual.

Archaebacteria

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Have cell walls, contain fatty acids, and have systems of metabolism (chemical reactions the living state of the cells and the organism). 

Proteoarcheaeota

Bacteria

Bacteria

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A lack of membrane-bound organelles.Unicellularity and thus division by binary-fission.Generally small size.

Eubacteria

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Characteristics: Real Bacteria, unicellular prokaryotes, lack nucleus

Major Morphologies

Coccus

Coccus

Staphylococcus Aureus

Bacillus

Bacillus

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widely found in soil and water

Bacillus Anthracis

Spirillum

Spirillum

Mice-Rats

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Found in the blood of apparently healthy mice and rats.