Animalia Characters

• They are multicellular, heterotrophic, eukaryotic organisms without cell wall.
• They directly or indirectly depend on plants for food.
• They digest their food in an internal cavity and store food reserves as glycogen or fat.
• Their mode of nutrition is holozoic – by ingestion of food.
• They have a definite growth pattern and grow into adults that have a definite shape and size.
• Higher forms show sensory and neuromotor mechanism.
• Most of them are capable of locomotion.
• The sexual reproduction is by copulation of male and female followed by embryological development.