The variety of life

Animals
multi-cellular organisms, no cell walls or chloroplasts, nervous co-ordination, store carbohydrates as glycogen in the liver. Eg. Humans, mice, dolphins (mammals), Mosquito (Insect)

Animals
multi-cellular organisms, no cell walls or chloroplasts, nervous co-ordination, store carbohydrates as glycogen in the liver. Eg. Humans, mice, dolphins (mammals), Mosquito (Insect)

Plants
multi-cellular organisms, cells contain chloroplasts and can carry out photosynthesis, cellulose cell walls, store carbohydrates as starch or sucrose, eg. Flowering plants (maize), Herbaceous legume (pea)

Plants
multi-cellular organisms, cells contain chloroplasts and can carry out photosynthesis, cellulose cell walls, store carbohydrates as starch or sucrose, eg. Flowering plants (maize), Herbaceous legume (pea)

Fungi
single or multi-cellular organisms. Organised into mycelium made from thread-like hyphae containing many nuclei. Cell walls made of chitin, feed by extra-cellular secretion of enzymes onto food and absorb the digested material (known as saprotrophic nutrition). Store carbohydrates as glycogen. Eg. Mucor, yeast, Candida albicans (thrush pathogen), Tinea pedis (Athletes foot pathogen)

Bacteria
single celled organisms, cell wall, plasmids, no nucleus; some photosynthesise but most feed from other organisms. Eg. Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Pneumococcus, Leptospira

Bacteria
single celled organisms, cell wall, plasmids, no nucleus; some photosynthesise but most feed from other organisms. Eg. Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Pneumococcus

Protoctists
single celled organisms. Some have plant-like features, some have animal-like features Eg Amoeba (animal-like), Chlorella (plant-like), Plasmodium (pathogen)

Protoctists
single celled organisms. Some have plant-like features, some have animal-like features Eg Amoeba (animal-like), Chlorella (plant-like), Plasmodium (pathogen)

Amoeba in motion

Viruses
Not living, not cellular, require a host to reproduce. Genetic material (DNA or RNA) and protein coat. Eg. Tobacco mosaic virus, HIV

Viruses
Not living, not cellular, require a host to reproduce. Genetic material (DNA or RNA) and protein coat. Eg. Tobacco mosaic virus, HIV

Pathogen
A micro-organism that causes disease in humans It can be a bacteria, a virus, a fungi or a protoctist