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Taxonomy - Coggle Diagram
Taxonomy
Hierarchy
Domain: Broadest rank
Bacteria (Prokaryotic): Single-celled, peptidoglycan in cell walls, no true nucleus, found everywhere
Archaea (Prokaryotic): Single-celled, no true nucleus, lives in extreme environments
Eukarya (Eukaryotic): Organism with membrane and nucleus, has membrane-bound organelles, single and multiicellular
Kingdoms
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Eukarya
Protista
Mostly single-celled, some photosynthesize and some ingest and absorb nutrients, highly diverse, examples are amoeba, paramecia and kelp
Plantae
Multicellular autotrophs with cell walls containing cellulose, manufacture food through photosynthesis and chlorophyll, alternate between sexual and asexual reproduction, examples are ferns moss and conifers
Fungi
Multi/unicellular heterotrophs with chitin in their cell wall that absorb nutrients and are essential decomposers, examples are mushrooms, molds and yeast
Animalia
Multicellular heterotrophs that lack cell walls, ingest food and digest it in specialized cavities, most are capable of mobility at some point in their life
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Definition: Branch of biology dedicated to naming and identifying forms of life based on shared characteristics
Carolus Linnaeus: Made Binomial Nomenclature, a two-part scientific naming system using latin words
Specific epithet comes second, lowercase and denotes specific species
Genus comes first, always capitalized
Formatting: Italicized while typed, underlined while written