Classification
The system of organization to study the diversity of life.
What is classification
The first word in an organism’s scientific name represents this.
What is the genus?
There are six of these in the classification scheme (that we are using).
What are Kingdoms?
Species
What is the most specific level of classification?
Land dwellers,
water dwellers,
air dwellers
What are the three groups Aristotle divided animals into?
The highest, the broadest, level of classification in the system.
What is Domain?
Kingdom that include unicellular organisms with a nucleus, can be plant-like, animal-like or fungi-like.
Kingdom Protista
These organisms create their own food which supplies them with energy.
What are autotrophs?
Genus
What level is higher than species but more specific than family?
The last word in an organism’s scientific name represents this.
What is the species?
These organisms get nutrients and energy by consuming other organisms.
What are Heterotrophs?
Family
What level is higher than genus but more specific than Order?
Prokaryotes lacking peptidoglycan in their cell walls
What are the archaea?
Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya
What are the 3 domains?
Order
What level is one higher than family but more specific than class?
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.
What are the levels in classification?
These are the six kingdoms for organisms.
What are Bacteria, Archaea, Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia?
Archaea and Bacteria are both this type of cell.
What are prokaryotic cells?
He set up a classification system based on similarities in habitat.
Who was Aristotle?
Class
What level is above Order but more specific than Phylum?