Scientific Naming
The scientific name comes from these two categories of classification.
What are genus and species?
This is the largest category of taxonomy.
What is domain?
What is the nickname for kingdom Protista?
The junk drawer
I am always an autotroph, I make my own food and never move around.
Plant
This part of the scientific name is the MOST SPECIFIC.
What is species?
This category comes after order and before genus.
What is family?
What is the correct order of the 7 taxa?
Domain, Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, Genus, species last!
I decompose other things and don't move around.
Fungi
Both words in the scientific name are written this way.
What is italics?
This comes after phylum and before order.
What is class?
the classification of living things is called this.
Taxonomy
This classification system creator lived during the 1700's.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
The "species" part of every scientific name starts with this kind of letter.
What is lowercase?
This category is divided into animal, plant, fungi, protists, and bacteria and archaea.
What is kingdom?
The level of Domain tell you the type of this inside an organism.
Cell type (prokaryote or eukaryote)
I belong to a domain that is not eukarya or bacteria. what am I?
Archaea
Means two-name system
What is binomial nomenclature?
Domain is divided into these three subcategories.
What are Eukarya, Archaea, and Bacteria?
Phylum are made of many?
classes
what did Carl Linnaeus name himself after?
The Linden trees in his yard.