The kingdom animal consists of multi cellular eukaryotic organisms. It consists of many phyla which are mentioned below. Phylum Porifera are pore bearing animals. Phylum Cnidaria has stinging cells and coelenterons with single opening. Flatworms come under Phylum Platyhelminths. Round worms and segmented worms are included ...

Brown algae are also known as phaeophyta. It is basically marine in its habitat. They have no unicellular forms and their body is differentiated into different parts. The largest algae belong to brown algae which are known as Kelps. They have air vesicles to provide ...

Red algae are also known as Rhodophyta. They are basically marine in their habitat and are autotrophic. They do not have motile stage. They can be unicellular, filamentous or ribbon shape. Some of them are macroscopic. They are known as red algae due to their ...

Algae and fungi live in aquatic habitat. They have thallus and there is no differentiation of leaves and roots. Mitospores are the main methods of asexual reproduction. There is no gametic union and sex organs are single celled and uncovered Fungi require organic matter for their ...

They have thalloids with chlorophyll. In this there is no embryo stage and non jacketed gametangia are present. In the previous classifications algae were placed in plant kingdom. While in five kingdom classification algae are groped in monera, protista and plantae. Their structure varies ...

Plantae are defined as multi cellular organisms which produce their food by photosynthesis. They are also known as metaphyta. Mainly in the old classification plant kingdom is divided into three groups which are thallophytes, bryophytes and tracheophytes. Thallophytes include fungi and algae. In this group ...

These organisms provide a link between fungus and plants. Fungal hyphae occur in root of mycorrhizae. These roots are quite different from normal root structure. There are no root caps and hairs. The roots are present where there is lot of organic matter. A fungus ...

Lichens are organism which shows association of fungus and algae. Fungal component is known as mycobiont and algae component is called phycobiont. Fungi can be ascomycetes or basidiomycetes. Algae are mainly Cyanobacteria. Theophrastus, the father of botany coined the term lichen. They often grow in ...