Animals

animal characteristics:

• heterotrophic (require nitrogen and carbon for nourishment)
• ingest food (swallow or absorb food)
• primarly diploid (contain 2 full sets of chromosomes, one from each parent)
• sexuall reproduction (reproduce sexually)

types of development:

• gradual (animal is in the same state all through develpment)
• metamorphesis (animals goes though diffrent stages or states as it develops)

There are two groups in the animal kingdom; the vertebrates and the invertebrates, an example of a vertebrate would be a dog, while an example of an invertebrate would be a jellyfish this is because jellyfish do not have a backbone while a dog does. these two groups are then further divided into; Phyla porifera, Cnideria, Platyhelminthes, Nermatoda, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda and Echinodermata.