Biology question!! please help! i don't know how to answer this.?

Question

You are walking along in a park and notice an unusual organism. It is not moving, but is appears to be attached to the side of a tree. After viewing some of its cells under a microscope you notice it is multicellular with eukaryote type cells. No chloroplast is present. To what kingdom does this organism belong?

Answer 1

According to the infomation you've been given, the organism belongs to the kingdom "FUNGI".

Here's how!

There are five kingdoms-

1.Prokaryotes  2. Protoctista  3. Fungi    

4. Plantae and 5. Animalia

Among these, the organisms in ALL the kingdoms are eukaryotes, EXCEPT the organisms in the "prokaryotes" kingdom.

However, only the kingdoms "animalia", "plantae" and "fungi" are MULTICELLULAR.

The unknown organism cannot belong to "plantae" cause it has no chloroplasts. It can't belong to the "animalia" kingdom cause it does'nt move.

So therefore, that only leaves the "fungi" kingdom! There you go! Also, fungi are often attached to trees, and get nutrition from them.

Here's a  website which has more information, it also has a "key" which you could use to identify other organisms. Here it is! http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studie...

Hope this helps! Good luck! :)

Answer 2

Go to this web site and it will tell you lots about eukaryotes as well as the kingdom and domains (scroll down & on the right)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote

Answer 3

sounds like it's archaeic

Answer 4

I would think they are from KINGDOM FUNGI.

As organisms from this kingdom:  Are multicellular, have a nuclei, mainly do not move from place to place, heterotrophic Examples include: mushroom, mold, puffball, shelf/bracket fungus, yeast.

It cant be from MONERA as they are procaryote type cells and not multicellular

Cant be PROTISTA as they are not multicellular

Cant be ANIMALIA as they move

Cant be PLANTAE as the organism you said has no chloroplast present. BUT the function of photosynthesis within plant cells and is present in EVERY plant cell.

So that only leaves 1 option: Fungi

Hope This Helps! =)