To be exact, seaweed is a type of multicellular algae, and true algae like seaweed belong to the kingdom Protista (not the kingdom Plantae). Algae are simple, plantlike organisms that are believed to be ancestors of modern-day land plants. Lacking vascular tissues like xylem and phloem, pl...
Protists are a kind of life traditionally classified in the kingdom Protista. Newer taxonomic organizations will classify some protists in the kingdom of Chromista, but they are still protists. Most protists are unicellular; however, they can be multicellular organisms. Protists are not plants,...
The Animal Kingdom evolved somewhere between 700 million and 1 billion years ago from single celled Protista. Land snails like many species are the product of more than 3 billion years of evolutionary change. The earliest gastropods were exclusively marine, but by the Mesozoic Era,about 248 milli...
Fungi are eukaryotic organisms that are classified in their ownKingdom, called Fungi. Thecell wallsof fungi contain chitin, a polymer that is similar in structure to glucose from which it is derived. Unlike plants, fungi don't have chlorophyll so are not able to make their own food. Fungi ...
You won't find deadbeat dads in the termite mound. Unlike inbee colonies, where males die soon after mating, the termite kings stick around. After their nuptial flight, the termite king stays with his queen, fertilizing her eggs as needed. He also shares parental duties with the queen, hel...
Parasitic castratorsbring about a loss of reproductive ability in their hosts. The parasitic castrators use up the reproduction resources of their hosts. Some examples of these parasites include juvenile helminths and some kinds of barnacles. ...
algae, members of a group of predominantly aquatic photosynthetic organisms of the kingdomProtista. Algae have many types oflife cycles, and they range in size from microscopicMicromonasspeciesto giantkelpsthat reach 60 metres (200 feet) in length. Their photosynthetic pigments are more varied than...
thebacteria(kingdom Monera), based on their unique absence of a clearly defined nucleus. Under Copeland’s arrangement, the kingdom Protista thus consisted of nucleated life that was neither plant nor animal. The following decade he revived the name Protoctista, using it in favour of Protista....
Pokémon fill all the requirements of being animals except for their diets. We are still learning much about many strange metabolisms and food preferences in the animal kingdom, so I don’t think we can exclude Pokémon from Animalia just for this, as I mentioned above. We’ll keep explorin...
algae, members of a group of predominantly aquatic photosynthetic organisms of the kingdomProtista. Algae have many types oflife cycles, and they range in size from microscopicMicromonasspeciesto giantkelpsthat reach 60 metres (200 feet) in length. Their photosynthetic pigments are more varied than...