Short-answer questions
1. Name the five kingdoms that organisms are
classified into.
2. What is the main difference between
prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
3. How does Amoeba move?
4. Which organism produces penicillin?
5. Name two plant diseases and two animal
diseases caused by fungi.
Answers
Answer:
1.a)kingdom plantae b) protista c)fungi d)animalia e)monera
Answer:
1-. Kingdom Monera (Prokaryotic bacteria and blue green algae).
Kingdom Protista (Unicellular Eukaryotic organisms- protozoans, fungi and algae).
Kingdom Fungi (Multinucleate higher fungi).
Kingdom Plantae (Multicellular green plants and advanced algae).
Kingdom Animalia (Multicellular animals).
2-Prokaryotic Cell
Eukaryotic cell
Size is 0.1- 5.0 um
Size is 5-100 um
Nucleus is absent
Nucleus is present
Membrane bound nucleus absent.
Membrane bound Nucleus is present.
One chromosome is present, but not true chromosome plastids
More than one number of chromosomes is present.
Unicellular
Multicellular
Lysosomes and Peroxisomes absent
Lysosomes and Peroxisomes present
Microtubules absent
Microtubules present
Endoplasmic reticulum absent
Endoplasmic reticulum present
Mitochondria absent
Mitochondria present
Cytoskeleton absent
Cytoskeleton present
Ribosomes smaller
Ribosomes larger
Vesicles present
Vesicles present
Golgi apparatus absent
Golgi apparatus present
Chloroplasts absent; chlorophyll scattered in the cytoplasm
Chloroplasts present in plants
Submicroscopic in size Flagella is present made up of only one fibre
Microscopic in size, membrane bound
Cell wall chemically complexed
Cell wall is present in plants and fungi and chemically simpler
Vacuoles absent
Vacuoles absent
Permeability of Nuclear membrane is not present
Permeability of Nuclear membrane is selective
Endocytosis and exocytosis are absent.
Endocytosis and exocytosis occurred
It may have pili and fimbriae.
Pili and fimbriae are absent
Transcription occurs in the cytoplasm
Transcription occurs inside the nucleus.
3-psuedopodia(false feet)
5-Fungi cause human illness in three different ways: poisonings, parasitic infections, and allergic reactions.