The Six Kingdoms

                                                 The Six Kingdoms 


                              Hey guys welcome back, today were gonna be talking about what the six  kingdoms are and what their characteristics are including you.

Scientists like to classify everything to help them understand what they are studying. In fact, the  greek philosophor and scientist Aristotle classified the organisms by plants and animals. He observed the animals and plants that he saw all over Greece. Just to give you a fact about the six kingdoms, the animal kingdom was further divided based on physical characteristics and habitats. The amazing thing is, that system held up for more than 2,000 years! pretty cool right? But eventually, scientists learned that the system isn't accurate anymore. So in modern times they came up with the six kingdoms by phylogeny- how organisms are classified through evolution. Using phylogeny can tell them which organism can fit into certain kingdoms.


First we have up is bacteria. They come in many shapes and sizes which are rods, spheres, spirals, and party streamers. Most bacteria aren't pathogenic, which makes you very sick, for example, salmonella.bacteria are everywhere! You can find them in air, water, even inside you, usually in your intestines. Speaking of intestines, they help you break down food in there.all bacteria are prokaryotic, meaning they have no nucleus.



              Next, we have the archea kingdom. They are similar to bacteria in a cellwise way. They are some of the oldest lifeforms on earth. Some even go back to billions of years ago. But people didn't know them until the 70s. Even though they are found in different habitats, they can survive in dangerous places like deep sea trenches, hot springs and volcanoes.

This is the protist kingdom. Like the two microorganisms above, most protists are unicellular creatures that are microscopic. The difference is their cells have a nucleus. protists are divided up by how they get their food. Animal like protists, such as amoebas, capture food to eat. plant like protists, such as plankton make foo by using photosynthesis.












This is the fungi kingdom. They live by sucking up the nutrients of organisms which is their life force. They are often found on dead matter, decaying the remains. Most fungi like mushrooms attach themselves to their food with clumps of tiny roots called hyphae.









Then, we have the plant kingdom. Unlike fungi, they make their own food through the process photosynthesis, which is the conversion of carbon dioxide and sunlight into food. Plant cells have a rigid walls made of a substance called cellulose.














Finally, we have the animal kingdom. They are multi celled organisms that have to eat food to survive. Animals always move around, but some stationary animals are coral.






















Well, see ya guys later.









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