Categories
Domains
Scientific Names
Misc.
Final Jeopardy
100
What are the 8 levels of classification in order from largest to smallest?
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
100
How many different domains are there?
3
100
What is the 2 word system for naming organisms?
binomial nomenclature
100

The process of grouping things based on their similarities.

What is classification?

100
What is the only kingdom where all members have cells that lack cell walls completely?
animal
200
What is the broadest (largest) level of classification?
domain
200
Name the 3 domains.
Archae, Bacteria, Eukarya
200
What is the process of naming and classifying organisms?
taxonomy
200

How do you write the scientific  name of an organism?

What is the first word is capitalized, second not.  All in italics.  (Panthera leo)

300
What is the most specific (smallest) level of classification?
species
300
What domain are humans and other animals in?
Eukarya
300
What two words make up a scientific name? (What is the first word and what is the second word?)
genus and species
300

Convergent evolution (define)

What is the process by which unrelated organisms evolve similar characeristics.
400
What is the category that contains many similar phyla?
kingdom
400
What domain contains very extreme bacteria, whose names often end in -phile?
Archaea
400
How can you tell if two things are definitely two different species? (Hint: What is the definition of biological species?)
Two different species cannot successfully interbreed or reproduce together.
400

The first scientist to understand evolution.

Who is Darwin?

500
What is the category that contains many similar families?
order
500
What domain contains bacteria that we may encounter, such as E. coli?
Bacteria
500

What is an organism that results from interbreeding between two species? (Hint: This organism is often sterile, like a mule, and it is a type of car that runs on gas and electricity)

a hybrid

500
What is the only domain to contain multicellular organisms?
Eukarya
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