animalia

Let us learn about animalia

The original Animal Kingdom proposed by Linnaeus included the sponges, jelly fishes, worms, crabs, insects, protozoans, spiders, snails, starfishes, sharks, bony fishes, frogs, lizards, birds & mammals too. Animalia is an illustrated kid's book by Graeme Base. Animalia was published in 1986.

The animal body basically exhibits a definite symmetry form & shape.

• Animals have the ability to move from place to place in search of their necessities.

• Growth & development in animals is determined & occurs proportionately in all parts of the body.

• Animals are generally heterotrophic, depends on plants & other animals for food

• Animals have the property of irritability - the ability to respond to a stimulus.

• The cells, that form an animal's body, do not have a cell wall. Plastids & vacuoles are basically absent & centrioles & lysosomes are present.

• Animal cells cannot synthesize all the necessary vitamins, amino acids, & coenzymes & as such will have to obtain them from external sources.

• Store food is glycogen.

In our next blog we shall learn about plant cell diagram I hope the above explanation was useful.Keep reading and leave your comments.