Lesson 4 ·Class 9 · Five Kingdom Classification · Sort Lab
Monera and Protista
Life without, and with, a true nucleus.
Sort each feature into the kingdom it describes.
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Both are mostly single-celled. The dividing line is the nucleus, not the size.
What this lesson covers
Challenges to clear
- Sort every feature.
- Fill the Protista column — single cells that do have a true nucleus.
The task
Sort each feature into the kingdom it describes.
What this lesson covers
- Monera — Prokaryotic: No true nucleus and no membrane-bound organelles (This single fact defines the kingdom.); Bacteria, cyanobacteria and mycoplasma (All prokaryotic.); Cell wall made of peptidoglycan (Chemically quite different from a plant's cellulose wall.); Reproduces by simple binary fission only (No mitosis and no spindle.)
- Protista — Eukaryotic, unicellular: Has a true nucleus and organelles (Which makes it eukaryotic, however small it is.); Amoeba, Paramecium and Euglena (Single-celled, but with a full eukaryotic cell.); Some photosynthesise, some ingest food, some do both (This nutritional mixture is exactly why the kingdom was created.); Moves by pseudopodia, cilia or flagella (Locomotory structures a bacterium does not possess.)
Hint
Both are mostly single-celled. The dividing line is the nucleus, not the size.