Yellowstone National Park

The Six Kingdoms Found in Yellowstone

 

The Six Kingdomes: eubacteria, archaebacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia.

 

eubacteria: complex and single celled. People are most familiar with this kind of bacteria.

                           

                             This image is an image of Streptococci, a type of eubacteria that can give you trepthroat. I know what your                              saying," In Yellowstone?!" Well yes. It can be cought anywhere even in Yellowstone.

 

 

 

 

 

archaebacteria:

unicellular (one cell) organisms in the samples. These organisms are today classified in the kingdom, Archaebacteria.

Archaebacteria are found in extreme environments such as hot boiling waterand thermal vents under conditions with no oxygen or highly acid environments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are images of the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park were Archaebacteria were first discovered. The biologists in the picture are immersing microscope slides in the boiling pool so that the archaebacteria can be captured to study. 

 

 

Protists: The three main types of Protists:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fungi:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slime molds are a type of fungi found in Yellowstone National Park. They have two stages of life in their short life cycle:

• free living stage (amoeboid)

• plasmodial ("slug") stage

They are oftenly bright in color

 

plantae:

 

Yellowstone sand verbena 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There areplenty of rare and unique plant species in Yellowstone. Yellowstone sand verbena (Abronia ammophila) is one such special plant. This sand verbena exists nowhere else in the world and is found only on Yellowstone's lakeshore.

 

 

animalia:

BIGHORN SHEEP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bighorn sheep were once an important food source for humans. The "Sheepeaters", related to the Shoshoni tribe, lived year-round in Yellowstone until 1880.