Video Transcript
A mushroom, pictured, grows up from
the ground, is generally considered immobile, and is commonly found in areas like
forests or grassland. In Linnaeus’s two-kingdom system of
classification, which kingdom is this mushroom most likely to be classified
into? (A) Plantae, Vegetabilia, or (B)
Animalia.
Linnaeus’s two-kingdom
classification system consisted of the kingdoms Animalia and Plantae. His kingdom Animalia included
organisms that are mobile and seek food. The other kingdom, Plantae,
otherwise known as Vegetabilia, included organisms that grow from the ground and are
immobile. The question tells us that the
mushroom grows up from the ground and is generally considered to be immobile. As a result of these
characteristics and that mushrooms do not appear to seek food, they would be
classified into kingdom Plantae in Linnaeus’s two-kingdom classification system.
Interestingly, in more recent
classification systems, the mushroom is not categorized in kingdom Plantae, but in
an entirely separate kingdom known as Fungi. However, the question asked for
Linnaeus’s system, so the answer is (A), Plantae, Vegetabilia.
