Kingdom Eubacteria

• Describe:
• large group of unicellular organisms
• Typically a few micrometres in length
• wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals
• Body Plan:
• unicellular
• Divergent Event:
• ancestors of modern bacteria - single-celled microorganisms that were the first forms of life to develop on earth about 4 billion years ago.
• Here eukaryotes resulted from ancient bacteria entering into endosymbiotic associations with the ancestors of eukaryotic cells- which were themselves possibly
• Metabolism:
• both 
• autotrophic – cyanobacteria
• heterotrophic - E. Coli
• Digestion:
• intracellular
• Circulation:
• None
• Respiration:
• None
• Nervous:
• None
• Reproduction:
• asexual
• Examples:
• Lactobacillus acidophilus – found in dairy products, Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria

• Cyanobacteria

• E. Coli