What is the relationship between the plant and animal kingdom and why is it important?

Answer 1

This is actually a complicated question. In most current phylogeny schemes, kingdoms are no longer a valid taxonomic classification (I know this probably throws all of what you have been taught out the window, sorry). There are now three domains of life (archae, prockaryotes, and euckaryotes). Plants and animals both fall within the eucharyotic domain. There are numerous phyla within these domains. There is also not as clear a line between plants and animals. A lot of this is ambiguity is encompassed by what used to be consider kingdom protists. With single celled organisms, there are a variety of feeding methods including autotrophy (you make your own food via photosynthesis or chemosynthesis), heterotrophic (you obtain nutrition by consuming other organisms) or mixotrophic ( you can alternately be autotrophic or heterotrophic). Thus, the categories of "plants" and "animals" don't always strictly apply (which is why they are no longer valid classifications).

Answer 2

We eat them (or eat those animals that eat them)

They grow on our bones (but note the interesting carnivorous plants)

It's the circle of life!



They tend not to move (with some exceptions)
We tend to move (also with some exceptions)



btw:
(1) there are more kingdoms than plantae and animalia and hence more life on earth

(2) not all animals are sentient

(3) I'm not particularly impressed with the results yielded by yahoo search

Answer 3

While I will not do your research for you, I will say that a
Yahoo Search: relationship between plant and animal kingdom

will get lots of information.

Good luck.

Answer 4

Plants are (with a few exceptions) the base of all food chains.

They Produce the oxygen we need to respirate.

Therefore without them, we would die.

Answer 5

Um, they both encompass all life on the planet, one kingdom of sentience and one of insentience? Just a thought.