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The Six Kingdoms
100
The largest, most general level of classification.
What is Kingdom?
100
The Genus name within the scientific name for the house cat - Felis Domesticus.
What is Felis?
100
The science of identifying, classifying, and naming things.
What is Taxonomy?
100
The arrangement of organisms into orderly groups based on their similiarities.
What is classification?
100
The Kingdom that contains all multicellular animals that can move about from place to place and have a nervous system.
What is Animalia?
200
All the organisms in a kingdom are sorted into several of this level of classification.
What is Phylum?
200
The Species name within the scientific name for the house cat - Felis Domesticus.
What is Domesticus?
200
The Swedish physician and botanist who founded taxonomy.
Who was Carolus Linnaeus?
200
The level of classification after phylum, or somewhere students should be to learn.
What is class?
200
The Kingdom that contains all of the complex multicellular organisms that are usually green and use the sun's energy to make sugar by photosynthesis.
What is Plantae?
300
Each Class is sorted into several of this level of classification.
What is Order?
300
The Species name within the scientific name for the Indian Elephant - Elephas Maximus.
What is Maximus?
300
What are the two things that taxonomists use to classify all organisms.
What are a shared ancestor and common traits.
300
The level of classification in which orders are separated, or something that each person has dinner with every night.
What is family.
300
The Kingdom that contains all molds and mushrooms that are decomposers.
What is Fungi?
400
The most specific level of classification.
What is Species?
400
The Species name within the scientific name for dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex.
What is Rex?
400
This diagram shows the evolutionary relationship between common organisms.
What is a branching diagram?
400
The kingdom that contains the Lion.
What is Animalia?
400
The Kingdom that contains single-celled or multicellular organisms that are eukaryotes.
What is Protista?
500
All seven levels of classification in order from biggest to smallest.
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.
500
The translation of the Greek and Latin words for Tyrannosaurus Rex.
What is Tyrant Lizard King?
500
The last two levels of classification use by scientists to name organisms instead of the many common names in each language.
What is the scientific name?
500
The Kingdom that contains the mushroom.
What is Fungi?
500
The two kingdoms of bacteria.
What is Archaebacteria and Eubacteria?
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