Classification
Language used in classifying organisms
Latin
The number of domains
3
prokaryotic, lacks peptidoglycan, branched fatty acids tails, live in harsh environment.
kingdom archaebacteria
The animal kingdom can be divided into 2 depending on the presence of absence of this structure.
backbone or vertebrae column
Plant-like Protista or algae, used to be in this Kingdom.
Kingdom Plantae
The scientific 2 part naming technique.
binomial nomenclature
the domain that contains eukaryotic organisms
eukarya
separated into invertebrates and vertebrates
kingdom animalia
Xylem or phloem? The vascular tissue that carries food and nutrients in plants.
phloem
The 2 taxons used in binomial nomenclature.
Genus and species
The scientist given credit for the classification system and binomial nomenclature.
Carolus Linnaeus
organisms belonging to this domain live in harsh environment
archaea
divided into nonvascular and vascular
kingdom plantae
in vascular plants, this tissue carries water.
xylem
The Protista kingdom is very diverse. In contains all different types of organisms. But the one thing they all have in common is the they lack ____ differentiation.
Tissue
the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics.
taxonomy
the domain that includes eubacteria
bacteria
unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic decomposers with cell walls made of chitin.
kingdom fungi
the special carbohydrate found in the cell membrane of eubacteria
peptidoglycan
A group of organisms that shares similar characteristics.
Taxon
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria were once grouped into this single kingdom.
monera
the domain that includes plant and animal cells
eukarya
The division of the Protista kingdom that are unicellular, heterotrophic organisms that are classified according to locomotion.
Animal like Protista - protozoa
An adaptive structure for plants to move on land.
cuticle, stomata or guard cells
When a donkey and a horse are crossed, they produce an infertile offspring, a mule. This is an example of what type of reproductive isolation?
Post zygotic barrier or hybrid infertility.