Animalia. Animals are multicellular, and move with the aid of cilia, flagella, or muscular organs based on contractile proteins. They have organelles including a nucleus, but no chloroplasts or cell walls.

Most animals are capable of complex and relatively rapid movement compared to plants and other organisms. Organisms that live rooted to one spot are sessile and those that move around are motile. Even the most sessile animals can move at lease part of their bodies. This movement is dependent on how animals obtain food.

The kingdom Animalia, or Metazoa, includes all animals. Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms, which are heterotrophic, meaning they obtain nutrition from organic sources. Animal cells are characterized by their lack of a rigid cell wall exhibited by fungi and plants.

Features. Members of the kingdom Animalia share a set of common, though broad, features. All animals are multicellular, and these cells lack the cell wall and chloroplasts that are typical of plants. Animals have mobility, at least at some point of their life cycle.

There are over 9 million species of animals found on Earth. They range from tiny organisms made up of only a few cells, to the polar bear and the giant blue whale. All of the organisms in this kingdom are multicellular and heterotrophs – that means they rely on other organisms for food.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park opened its doors on Earth Day (April 22, 1998), giving families a whole new way to appreciate, enjoy and interact with animals. This park was the fourth to be built at the Walt Disney World Resort.

There are seven main taxonomic ranks: kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, species.

What are some examples of Animalia?

• Amoeba (unicellular)
• Sycon (marine sponge)
• Hydra/Jelly fish (aquatic)
• Comb jelly (aquatic & bioluminescent)
• Tapeworm (flat body & endoparasitic)
• Roundworm (parasitic)
• Earthworm, Leech.
• Cockroach, Prawn, Scorpion.

Animals in the kingdom Animalia are organized into seven phyla: Annelida (worms, leeches) Arthropoda (insects, spiders, crustaceans) Chordata (mammals, fish, reptiles, birds)

Animals are then broken down into two types: vertebrates and invertebrates. Animals with a backbone are vertebrates.

Traditionally, some textbooks from the United States and Canada used a system of six kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaebacteria, and Bacteria/Eubacteria) while textbooks in Great Britain, India, Greece, Brazil and other countries use five kingdoms only (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and …

Mammals are members of the Animal Kingdom because they are all multicellular organisms who eat other organisms and are capable of movement at some point in their lives.

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Some references place all the vascular plants in a separate phylum or division called the Tracheophyta. Most botanists now subdivide vascular plants into 9 divisions….Categories Within The Kingdom Plantae.

The fungi (singular, fungus) once were considered to be plants because they grow out of the soil and have rigid cell walls. Now they are placed independently in their own kingdom of equal rank with the animals and plants and, in fact, are more closely related to animals than to plants.