Wednesday 26 November 2014

1b) Variety of living organisms



Organisms
Description
Examples
Plants
Multicellular
Chloroplasts: photosynthesise
Cell walls: out of cellulose
Store carbohydrates: starch
Trees
Cereals
Legumes
Animals
Multicellular
No cell walls
Store carbohydrates as glycogen
Fat cells
Cells can change shape
Mammals
Insects
Fungi
Single-celled
Mycelium: hyphae which has leads of nuclei
Cell walls made of chitin
Starch stored
Mushrooms
Puffballs
Yeasts
Mucor
Bacteria
Single-celled and microscopic
No nucleus
Circular chromosome of DNA
Some can photosynthesise
Feed off other organisms
Salmonella
Typhi
Vibrio
Protoctists
Single-celled and microscopic
Chlorophasts and similar to plant cells some animals cells
Chlorella
Amoeba
Viruses
Not living
No cells
Don' t store energy
Hide in living cells
Can't detect them (antibodies)
HIV
AIDS


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