Difference between five kingdoms.

Question

What are the differences among the five kingdoms of life?

Answer 1

Major differences among five kingdoms in the Five Kingdom System of Classification are as stated below:

Property	Kingdom Monera	Kingdom Protista	Kingdom Fungi	Kingdom Plantae	Kingdom Animalia
Cell type	Prokaryotic	Eukaryotic	Eukaryotic	Eukaryotic	Eukaryotic
Cell organization	Unicellular	Unicellular	Multicellular	Multicellular	Multicellular
Cell wall	Made up of peptidoglycan	With or without cell wall. Made up of cellulose	Made up of chitin or fungal cell wall or both	Made up of true cellulose or pectic compounds	Absent
Nutritional class	Phototrophic, heterotrophic, Parasites, Saprophytes	Photosynthetic, Holozoic, Saprophytic, Parasitic	Heterotrophic Saprophytes	Autotrophic	Heterotrophic
Mode of nutrition	Absorptive	Absorptive or ingestive	Absorptive	Mostly Absorptive	Mostly ingestive
Motility	Motile or non motile	Motile or non-motile Cilia or flagella	Non-motile	Sedentary in nature	Mostly Motile
Reproduction	Asexual (fission or budding)	Asexual or Sexual	Vegetative, Sexual or Asexual	Vegetative, Sexual or Asexual	Mostly Sexual. Some can reproduce by asexual means.
Examples	Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Cyanobacteria, Actinomycetes	Amoeba, Paramoecium, Euglena	Agaricus, Aspergillus, Penicillium	Algae, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes	Snakes, Fishes, Kangaroo