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Old 21-01-2009: 21st January 2009 12:48 #1 
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Default Are bacteria animals? Are they better than plants?
 
They're so small, and some are made of single cells aren't they? So where do bacteria fit in the categories of life?
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Default Re: Are bacteria animals? Are they better than plants?
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom...#Five_kingdoms

They fit into the appropriate kingdom...
 
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Default Re: Are bacteria animals? Are they better than plants?
 
NO.
Bacteria are prokaryotes. and are single celled

Life is in 5 kingdoms:
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- Protoctisa
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Default Re: Are bacteria animals? Are they better than plants?
 
Prokaryotes, which is separate from Animalia and Plantae. They're usually considered the most basic organism, if you exclude viruses as living.
 
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Default Re: Are bacteria animals? Are they better than plants?
 
Originally Posted by shorty.loves.angels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom...#Five_kingdoms

They fit into the appropriate kingdom...
So who's the king of the bacterias?
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Default Re: Are bacteria animals? Are they better than plants?
 
They do, they fit into the Kingdom of prokaryotae (this is a biological term, just a warning). In Biology , a kingdom is of species differentition behind (there are many of these, namely species, genera, families, orders, classes, phyla and kingdoms). But in general they are not really classed as animals IMO
 
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Default Re: Are bacteria animals? Are they better than plants?
 
Originally Posted by tomm
So who's the king of the bacterias?

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Thanks for the answers.
 
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