The Broadest Umbrella
This is the largest and broadest level of classification.
What is a Domain?
"Pro" rhymes with "No," meaning these cells have no...
What is a nucleus?
This Kingdom includes humans, dogs, and insects.
What is Kingdom Animalia?
This term describes an organism that makes its own food.
What is an autotroph?
The science of naming and classifying living things.
What is taxonomy?
Name the 3 Domains of life (Think A.B.E.).
What are Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya?
These complex cells contain a nucleus and organelles.
What are Eukaryotic cells?
This Kingdom contains organisms like mushrooms and molds.
What is Kingdom Fungi?
An organism that must eat other things for energy.
What is a heterotroph?
An organism made up of only one single cell.
What is unicellular?
This is the second broadest level, found just below Domain.
What is a Kingdom?
You are made of trillions of cells, making you this.
What is multicelluar?
Kingdom Plantae gets its energy through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
In this type of reproduction, the offspring is a genetic clone.
What is asexual reproduction?
An organism made up of many cells.
What is multicellular?
Archaea are known for living in these types of environments.
What are extreme environments?
True or False: Bacteria are considered Eukaryotic cells.
False
This "catch-all" Kingdom includes amoebas and euglena.
What is Kingdom Protista?
This type of reproduction requires two parents
What is sexual reproduction?
A type of cell that lacks membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryote?
List the levels of classification from broadest to most specific.
What are: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
Kingdom Animalia and Kingdom Plantae both share this cell type.
What is Eukaryotic?
This Kingdom belongs to Domain Bacteria.
What is Kingdom Eubacteria?
Are most decomposers (like bacteria) autotrophs or heterotrophs?
What are heterotrophs?
This method is used by biologists to group organisms.
What is classification?