Ch 13: Diversity

Some benefits: mutualists, can eat them, used for fermentation and in antibiotics

This kingdom includes prokaryotic, unicellular organisms with a cell wall made of peptidoglycan

This kingdom includes, mobile, multicellular, heterotrophic organisms without a cell wall

This kingdom includes algae & protozoans, they are multi & single celled, macro or microscopic:

Some benefits: remediation, decomposers, gut flora, used to make foods like cheese

Some disadvantages: can lead to pandemics, food-borne disease, and resistance

This kingdom includes photosynthetic, multicellular organisms w/ cell walls made of cellulose?

Some disadvantages: cause Malaria, plant mildew, potato blight, red tide

This kingdom includes, prokaryotic, unicellular organisms that live in extreme environments

Some benefits include: produce lots of oxygen, plankton, mutualism with corals, saprobes

This kingdom includes organisms with cell walls made of chitin and they absorb their nutrients:

Some disadvantages: plant pathogens such as smuts & rusts, animal skin & respiratory infections