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June 18, 2020
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Class Insecta
By
KHO
Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Arthropoda > Class: Insecta > Order: Coleoptera Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera. They are the largest group of insects with over 300,000 species, a quarter of all known living species. They live in most climates and can survive extreme dry or wet. They can vary … Continue reading "Order Coleoptera"
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June 17, 2020
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Beasts
By
KHO
This is a large order and some have further divided it into suborders or superfamilies. Below is an alphabetic list of the families Family Abrocomidae (chinchilla rats) C2 — 10 living spp Family Anomaluridae (scaly-tailed squirrels) A — 7 living spp Family Aplodontiidae (mountain beaver) E — 1 living spp Family Bathyergidae (blesmoles and mole … Continue reading "Order Rodentia"
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Posted:
November 18, 2019
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Kingdom Archaea
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KHO
Archaea can live in the most extreme places are often classified according to the environments in which they live: Halophiles are salt-loving, Thermophiles live in extremely high temperatures, Psychrophiles live in extremely cold temperatures and Methanogens are anaerobic and produce methane gas. They can be found from the frozen Artics/Antarchtics to the boiling acidic springs … Continue reading "Kingdom Archaea (Archaebacteria)"
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Posted:
November 16, 2019
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Kingdom Bacteria
By
KHO
These are true bacteria. They are found absolutely everywhere. Although some are pathogens, many are essential to life and are also important in the recycling of nutrients. Classification of bacteria based on shape In 1872, Ferdinand Cohn, considered to be the father of modern bacteriology, classified bacteria into 4 types based on their shapes as … Continue reading "Kingdom Bacteria (Eubacteria)"
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Posted:
November 10, 2019
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Kingdom Fungi
By
KHO
Kingdom: Fungi > Phylum: Basidiomycota This large and diverse phylum include mushrooms and toadstools, bracket fungi, puffballs, earthstars and stinkhorns, club and coral fungi, tooth fungi, jelly fungi, rusts and smuts and certain yeasts. Most of the common fungi we see belong either here or under Ascomycota. The classes and orders where I have photos … Continue reading "Phylum Basidiomycota"
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Posted:
November 09, 2019
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Kingdom Fungi
By
KHO
Kingdom: Fungi > Phylum: Ascomycota The ascomycetes are the sac fungi, so named because of the reproductive spores contained in a special sac called ascus during the sexual stage. Many of the ascomycetes live on dead organic matter and many are plant pathogens, some are animal pathogens and a few are edible mushrooms, examples of … Continue reading "Phylum Ascomycota"
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Posted:
October 18, 2019
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Kingdom Fungi
By
KHO
Fungi are widely distributed throughout our planet and are of great medical and environmental importance. The kingdom of Fungi include yeasts, rusts, smuts, mildews, moulds & mushrooms. Slime moulds, although often referred to as fungi, are in the kingdom Chromista. Classification of fungi below the level of the kingdom is controversial and there doesn’t seem … Continue reading "Kingdom Fungi"
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Posted:
October 18, 2019
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Kingdom Plantae
By
KHO
These are a group of mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic organisms. Historically, any living thing not classified as animal was classified as a plant but now fungi and some algae have their own kingdoms. There are many ways of classifying the plants but they can be classified using the standard system and this is used by … Continue reading "Kingdom Plantae"
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Posted:
October 12, 2019
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Class Aves
By
KHO
A comparison of different world lists I wanted to organise my bird photos and thought I would separate them into their families. With this in mind, I went to the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) website for a list of bird families. According to BTO, there are 9,845 living species of birds in 172 families … Continue reading "Classification of birds"
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Posted:
July 26, 2019
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Taxonomy
By
KHO
This project grew out of my trying to label my wildlife photos and identify the species in the pictures. I then wanted to group the photos together based on the species classification. I soon found that this was not as straight forward as I had expected. Over time, there have been a lot of changes in … Continue reading "Classification of life"
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