Kingdom Monera- Comprised of 2 subkingdoms: Archaeabacteriobion & Eubacteruaibionta
- Prokaryotic; single-celled with no nucleus - Bacteria - Both Autotrophs and heterotorphs - Roles in oceans: base of food chian, converters of nitrogen gas into useful forms for organisms, decomposers. - Organisms in the Kingdom Monera lack nuclei and organelles and most of their cell walls are made up of peptidoglycan (except archaebacteria) - Most organisms in K.Monera uses flagella for movement - Digestion is done extracellular(outside the cell) and nutrients are absorbed into the cell - Saprophytes is a special kind of heterotroph, obtain energy by feeding on decaying matter - Some bacteria live in symbiotic relationships with other organisms, parasitism (harmful to the host), commensalism (one organism benefits while the other is unaffected), and mutualism (both organism benefits) - Reproduce through binary fission (asexual) or conjugation (sexual) |