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The evolution of body cavities within the kingdom Animalia has a very interesting history. In fact, the increasing complexity of animal form and function during the evolution of the group can be directly linked to the evolution of ever-more-sophisticated body cavities. The most primitive animal phyl...

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There are 6: Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia. I was wondering which organism (only 1 for each) would serve as a "model example" of each. Meaning, a good representation of each kingdom. I'm not sure if I'm using the term "kingdom" correctly. Sorry, I tra...

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Classification of a Garden Snail: Kingdom – Animalia Phylum – Mollusca Class – Gastropoda Order – Stylommatophora Family – Halicidae Genus – Helix Species – Aspersa What features/characteristics does the garden snail have that makes it part of that group/classification? and how does it relate to the...

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4) actually no, you are taking it in the back order. If you have one kingdom, let's say animals, they are popular, they can be in phylum Cnidaria, but also in phylum Mollusca, but also in many other phyla. But if you have organisms in phylum Mollusca, than they are definitely both in kingdom Animali...

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1 - Biology is not destroyed by an unclear definition of the word "species". Your semantical paradox fails. without knowing what your term species means all this is meaningless nonsense as your classification system cannot locate or identify the objects of investigation http://en.wikipedi...

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