Vocabulary
What is biology?
The study of living things
Which domain are animals a part of?
Eukarya
Which kingdom do mushrooms belong to?
Fungi
What is the point of binomial nomenclature?
To have a standard system for naming organisms
What is the top level (least specific) of classification?
Domain
What is an organism?
Any individual living thing
What are the three domains?
Eukarya, archaea, bacteria
What is a kingdom that consists of unicellular organisms?
Archaea, bacteria, or protista
Genus and species
What is the lowest level (most specific) of classification?
Species
What does multicellular mean?
Made of more than one cell
What do all organisms in the domain eukarya have in common?
All of their cells have nuclei
What is a kingdom that contains autotrophs?
Plantae
A dog's name in binomial nomenclature is Canis lupus. What is it's genus?
Canis
What comes next?
Domain
Kingdom
___________
Phylum
What does macroscopic mean?
Able to be seen with the naked eye
Are organisms in the archaea domain unicellular or multicellular?
Unicellular
What are the six kingdoms?
What do all animals in the phylum chordata have in common?
They all have backbones.
What comes next?
Phylum
Class
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Order
What is taxonomy?
The science by which organisms are classified
Which domain do fungi belong to?
Eukarya
Which kingdom contains unicellular organisms but is a part of the eukarya domain?
Protista
Here's some information about an ostrich. What would it's name be in binomial nomenclature?
Domain - Eukarya
Class - Aves
Family - Struthionidae
Genus - Struthio
Order - Struthioniformes
Species - camelus
Struthio camelus
What comes next?
Order
Family
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Genus