Features of plants, animals and fungi

Features of plants, animals and fungi

1. Plants!

   • Plants are multicellular
   • they have chloroplasts which means they can photosynthesise
   • the cells have cell walls which are made of cellulose
   • Store carbohydrates as sucrose or starch

2. Animals

   • animals are multicellular
   • animal cells do not have chloroplast so cannot photosynthesis so respire for energy
   • animal cells do not have cell walls, this means that their shapes differ greatly and are squishy
   • Most animals have a nervous coordination, this means that they can change rapidly to changes in the environment
   • Animals move around from place to place
   • they store carbohydrates as glycogen

3. Fungi

   • some are unicellular/single celled
   • others have a body made of mycelium, which is made up of hyphae, this has lots of nuclei
   • Do not photosynthesise
   • Cell wall made up of chitin
   • feed by sapotrophic nutrition, they secret extracellular exymes into the area around them, to dissolve food then absorb the nutrientr
   • Stores carbohydrates as glycogen