Scientists
What job did God give Adam concerning all created organisms?
Naming them
What language is used in scientific names of organisms?
Latin
What early type of classification was based on observation?
Artificial
______________ is any inheritable characteristic giving an organism an advantage for survival.
Adaptation
Who is known as the father of taxonomy?
Linnaeus
Which term refers to two names to name an organism?
Binomial Nomenclature
What type of classification system do we use today?
Natural
Give two reasons that organisms migrate.
Food
Safety
Survival of young
Which scientist was the first to attempt classifying organisms?
Aristotle
How are organism names properly written for classification? (4 requirements)
Genus (capitalized)
species (lowercase)
What are the 7 levels of classification?
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
What term is used for all the variation in species?
Gene Pool
What two kingdoms did Aristotle organize organisms into?
Plants and Animals
Species is the Latin word for _______________ .
kind
What are the 6 kingdoms in Biology?
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
Protista
Plantae
Animalia
What is wrong with the method evolutionists use to organize the steps of organism evolution?
Gaps (unfound organisms)
What two discoveries have scientists made that provide a large increase of known organisms in Biology?
Microscopes
Genetics
Give two reasons why Latin was selected as the language or the classification system.
Descriptive Language
Basis of European Languages
It is non-spoken
What are two main reasons that classification in biology is important?
Communication between scientists
What do evolutionists use to demonstrate the steps in organism evolution?
phylogenetic tree