Classification of Living Things

Animal Kingdom

Plant Kingdom

Fungi Kingdom

Monera Kingdom

Protista kingdom

Classification

Amebozoa

Archaeplastid

Excavate

Stramenopiles

Alveolata

Rhizaria

Opisthokonta

Definition

This kingdom includes all those eukaryotic unicellular and multicellular organisms with anatomical and functional characteristics intermediate between plants and animals.

Characteristics

They are eukaryotic organisms.

Their size is very variable

They live in a wide variety of locations

All possible nutrition models are displayed

Autotroph

Heterotroph

They have a wide variety of types of locomotion

Flagella

Cilia

Pseudopods

They have different reproduction strategies

Mitosis

Bipartition

Gemation

Multiple split

Importance

The diverse kingdom of protists had, from its origin, great importance within the world of scientific taxonomy and biology, among other branches of science.