Categories
Domains
Kingdoms
Scientific Names
Miscellaneous
100
What is the most specific (smallest) level of classification?
species
100
How many different kingdoms are there?
6
200
What is the broadest (largest) level of classification?
domain
200
Name the 6 Kingdoms.
Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Arachaebacteria, and Eubacteria
200
What is the process of naming and classifying organisms?
taxonomy
200

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300
What are the 8 levels of classification in order from largest to smallest?
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
300
What domain are humans and other animals in?
Eukarya
300
What is the only kingdom where all members have cells that lack cell walls completely?
animal
300
What two words make up a scientific name? (What is the first word and what is the second word?)
genus and species
300

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400

What is the taxon that contains many similar phyla?

kingdom

400
What domain contains very extreme bacteria, whose names often end in -phile?
Archaea
400
Name 2 differences between plants and fungi.
plants are autotrophs, fungi are heterotrophs; plant cell walls have cellulose, fungi cell walls have chitin
400
What is the 2 word system for naming organisms?
binomial nomenclature
400
What are the specialized structures that similar tissues are organized into?
organs
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
Name 2 differences between the plant and animal kingdom.
plants are autotrophs, animals are heterotrophs; plants have a cell wall, animals do not
500

Why is it best for scientists to use the scientific name from the standardized taxonomic system. 

The common names can be confusing. OR Scientific names help describe the evolutionary relationship between different organisms. 

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