Levels of Classification 1
The largest level of classification at the top of the pyramid.
What is Domain?
The 5th level of classification that further breaks down organisms further by ancestry. Example: Carnivores
What is Order?
What is the science that names and groups all living things?
What is taxonomy?
These are multiple cell qukaryotes that eat other organisms for food, including insects, birds, and mammals.
What is Kingdom Animalia?
The 3 Domains of Classification.
What are Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya.
The level of classification that divides life into 5 separate groups.
What is Kingdom?
The level of classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. Between Species and Family.
What is Genus?
The process of organizing living things into groups based on shared characteristics, behaviors, or relationships.
What is Classification?
This kingdom contains mostly single celled eukaryotes.
What is Kingdom Protists?
Microorganisms in this domain often live in harsh environments like deep sea vents or hot springs.
What is Domain Archaea?
This level breaks organisms down by characteristics, body parts, and ancestry.
What is Phylum?
The most basic, fundamental unit of biological classification.
What is Species?
The first scientist who divided all living things into two kingdoms - Animals and Plants.
Who is Aristotle?
This kingdom contains multiple celled eukaryotes that make their own food, containing plants like trees, ferns, and flowering plants.
What is Kingdom Plantae?
These organisms have complex cells containing a nucleus and organelle (animals, plants, fungi).
What is Domain Eukarya?
A more specific level that groups organisms that share characteristics.
What is Class?
The 6th level of classification located between Order and Genus.
What is Family?
The scientists who organized life into 3 domains.
Who are Fox and Woese?
What is Kingdom Fungi?
What is Domain Bacteria?