​Shenandoah National Park 

The Kingdoms of Life and Shenandoah

 

There are many different terms that are applied to the living organisms in an area, those terms are unicellular, multicellular, prokaryotic, eukaryotic, autotrophic, and heterotrophic. There are organisms that fall in all of these categories. For example most animals, such as the White-Tailed Deer, fall under the category of multicellular, eukaryotic, and heterotrophic. This would be the terms because multicellular means that the organism is made up of more than one cell, eukaryotic means that the organisms cells have a nucleus, and heterotrophic means that the organism does not produce its own food, but has to go find it. Unicellular, prokaryotic, and autotrophic are the counter parts of these words and mean the exact opposite. The kingdoms are: archaebacteria, eubacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia. The terms described above are used to describe the various kingdoms and this is how they are used to describe the living organisms in the Shenandoah National Park. The chart below shows how each term relates to each kingdom. 

 

 

 

 

         Kingdom                         Cell Type           Nucleus           Food  

 

• Archaebacteria                    Unicellular       Prokaryotic      Both

• Eubacteria                          Unicellular       Prokaryotic      Both

• Protista                             Multicellular     Eukaryotic       Both 

• Fungi                                 Multicellular     Eukaryotic      Heterotrophic

• Plantae                              Multicellular     Eukaryotic      Autotrophic

• Animalia                             Multicellular     Eukaryotic      Heterotrophic