Kingdoms of Life

This lesson covers:

  1. The key features and differences between animals, plants, fungi, protoctists, bacteria, and viruses

Which of the following are included in the '5 kingdoms of life'?

(Select all that apply)

Plants

Bacteria

Viruses

Animals 

Fungi

Protoctists

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Which of the following are considered 'eukaryotes'?

(Select all that apply)

Animals 

Bacteria

Viruses

Fungi

Protoctists

Plants

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Which of the following is considered 'prokaryotic'?

Plants

Animals 

Viruses

Bacteria

Protoctists

Fungi

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A key difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, is eukaryotic cells all have:

Cytoplasm

Plasmids 

A cell membrane 

A nucleus 

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Illustration of a lion standing in grass and a cow standing on the ground.

Which of the following are features of animals? 

(Select all that apply)

Unicellular 

Reproduce asexually 

Heterotrophs 

Reproduce sexually 

Multicellular 

Autotrophs 

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Illustration of plants with green stems, leaves, and flowers in pink and blue.

Which of the following are features of plants? 

(Select all that apply)

Saprotrophs  

Multicellular 

Autotrophs 

Unicellular 

Heterotrophs 

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Fungi can be unicellular or multicellular. 


Is yeast unicellular or multicellular?

Unicellular 

Multicellular 

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Saprotrophic nutrition 


excrete / absorb / digestive / nutrients / heterotrophic / waste


  1. Fungi feed by a special type of nutrition called 'saprotrophic' nutrition. 
  2. First, they secrete enzymes out of their body, onto the food.
  3. These break down and digest the food.
  4. They then the small into their cells. 
heterotrophic
digestive
absorb
nutrients

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Image showing a mushroom with a close-up of its mycelium structure.

Some fungi (for example mushrooms) have a body known as a mycelium, which is made up of loads of tiny thread like structures called __________.

hydras

hairs

hyphae

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unicellular / multicellular


The large majority of protoctists are .

unicellular

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True or false? Only some protoctists can photosynthesise.

True

False

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Cartoon illustration of a bacterium with a single eye and multiple appendages.

True or false? Bacteria only live in a few specific environments.

True

False

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True or false? The majority of bacteria don't have anything to do with humans (i.e. they don't help us, or cause us any problems).

True

False

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plants / bacteria


Humans have in their intestines which help them break down food.

bacteria

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Illustration of a virus structure with geometric shapes and spikes.

Would it be correct to say viruses are 'tiny cells'?

No

Yes

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Viruses are considered parasites. 


What does the term 'parasite' mean?

A microorganism that causes disease 

An organism that depends on another organism to grow and reproduce 

An organism that transports pathogens from one host to another 

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Which of the following can act as pathogens?

(Select all that apply)

Protoctists

Bacteria

Fungi

Viruses

Plants

Animals 

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