Classifying Organisms
The study of how living things are classified.
What is taxonomy?
Charles Darwin created this.
What is the Theory of Evolution?
The three domains.
What are Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryote?
The process of grouping things based on their similarities.
What is classification?
All living things need this, a place to get food and water and find shelter.
What is living space?
Certain organisms are similar because they share a common this.
What is an ancestor?
The only kingdom that contains all autotrophs.
What is Plants?
The father of the classification system.
Who is Linnaeus?
An organism composed of only one cell.
What is a unicellular organism?
The animal that Darwin studied.
What is the finch?
The domains that contains prokaryotes.
What are Bacteria and Archaea?
Useful tools for determining the identity of organisms.
What is a taxonomic key?
About two-thirds of your body is this.
What is water?
Darwin collected data for his theory at this location.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
Mushrooms, mold and mildew belong to this kingdom.
What is Fungi?
The 8 levels of classification, in order.
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
The process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism.
What is development?
Living things can only arise from other living things through this.
What is reproduction?
Species with similar these are classified more closely together.
What are evolutionary histories?
The "odds and ends" kingdom.
What is Protista?