Eukaryotic Organisms: Plants, Animals, and Fungi

These flashcards cover the key characteristics and differences among plants, animals, and fungi, focusing on their cell structures and nutritional methods.

What type of organisms are plants, animals, and fungi classified as?

Eukaryotic organisms.

What structure allows plants to photosynthesize?

Chloroplasts.

What do plant cells have that animal cells do not?

Cell walls

In what forms do plants store carbohydrates?

As sucrose or starch.

What is a distinctive feature of animal cells compared to plant cells?

Most animals have some kind of nervous coordination. This means that they can respond rapidly to changes in the environment. Also animals can usually move around from one place to another.

What do animals often store carbohydrates as?

In the form of glycogen.

What body structure do some fungi have that is made up of hyphae?

Mycelium.

What material are fungal cell walls made of?

Chitin.

How do fungi obtain nutrients?

By saprotrophic nutrition, secreting extracellular enzymes into the area outside their body t dissolve their food, so they can absorb the nutrients.

What can Fungi story carbohydrate as?

Glycogen

What are two examples of multicellular organisms in the plant kingdom?

Cereals, like maize, and herbaceous legumes, like peas.

What is an example of a multicellular organism in the plant kingdom?

Cereals, like maize.

What is another example of a multicellular organism in the plant kingdom?

Herbaceous legumes, like peas.

What is an example of a multicellular organism in the fungi kingdom?

Mycelium.

What is another example of a multicellular organism in the fungi kingdom?

Mushrooms.

What is an example of a multicellular organism in the animal kingdom?

Humans.

What is another example of a multicellular organism in the animal kingdom?

Dogs.