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In the Year 2525

Humans, after hundreds of years of constant effort, have successfully polluted all bodies of water on Earth. As a result, almost all previously known species of plant, animal, and other life have become extinct. Through natural selection, genetic engineering, and selective breeding programs, a portion of the Earth has successfully repopulated. The following organisms are all that remain:

1. Photosynthetic sun-basking sharks. Their green fins have chlorophyll to convert sunlight to energy. (autotrophs)
2. Chemosynthetic goldfish that convert pollution to food. (autotrophs)
3. Aquatic humanoids whose main diet is aqua-wheat and basking sharks. They have fins instead of legs. (heterotrophs)
4. Aqua-wheat: one of the few plants that remain, similar to algae.
5. Terrestrial humanoids with four arms, their diet consists of butter-roaches and fuzzy hamsters.
6. Tentacled aqua humanoids, they only feed on aqua-wheat and have tentacles for arms and legs.
7. Cockroaches that feed on humanoid waste.
8. Giant aqua-spiders that live in water and feed on goldfish and basking sharks.
9. Green-haired rats that are photosynthetic.
10. Parasitic mosquitos that feed on any humanoid.
11. Ten-legged fleas that live on photosynthetic rats and drink blood.
12. Poison Grass - this plant is a hybrid between grass and poison ivy. The plant is toxic to almost everything (autotroph)
13. Fuzzy hamsters with green hair that use the sunlight to make their food, thought to be related to rats.
14. Butter-roaches: genetic engineering created these butterfly-like creatures from cockroaches. Butter-roaches eat poison grass.

Question:

a) Identify the defining characteristics for each classification category. Include five distinguishing characteristics for each kingdom, three for each phylum and genus.