The name of the person who developed the use of scientific names
Who is Linnaeus?
100
All living organisms are made of one or more of these basic building blocks:
What are cells?
100
unicellular organisms that are found in extreme environments such as hot springs
What is archaebacteria?
100
Bacteria is used in research labs for this reason (hint: it has something to do with their rate of reproduction):
What is the reproduce rapidly?
200
The classification group which shows the greatest similarities among its members
What is species?
200
This is the language that the scientific names for organisms is usually written
What is Latin?
200
The euglena is eukaryotic which means it has a what?
What is nucleus?
200
multicellular autotrophic organism belong to this kingdom
What is plant?
200
antibiotic medicines are ineffective on viruses because of this reason
What is viruses are non-living particles?
300
Which classification group has very similar characteristics but CANNOT produce fertile offspring
What is genus?
300
The organ system most similar to a human's system is (choose one):
maple tree or horse or mushroom
What is a horse?
300
The genus and species of an organism make up this
What is scientific name?
300
Yeast, mold, and mushrooms belong to this kingdom
What is fungi?
300
If your reading a book about How Protists Move, name one of three body parts that enable protists to move that would be mentioned in the book (think of the ameba, paramecium or euglena)
What is cilia, flagellum, or pseudopod?
400
Name one of 2 characteristics of organisms that are most commonly used to place them in a specific kingdom?
What is way of getting food or cell structure?
400
As you observe a paramecium through a microscope, it is moving out of your field of view going to the right. This is the direction you should move the slide to follow it as it moves
What is right?
400
Organisms that can reproduce together and their offspring can reproduce
What is species?
400
Most organisms with chloroplasts belong to this kingdom
What is plant?
400
the scientific name for human beings
What is home sapiens?
500
The 8 classification groups from largest to smallest (Think: Dumb kids playing catch on freeways get squashed)
What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
500
A mushroom is considered a heterotroph rather than an autotroph because it can do this
What is absorb nutrients?
500
A new paramecium is sometimes produced from a single parent. This type of asexual reproduction in which the new organism is genetically identical to the parent is called what?
What is binary fission.
500
The scientific name for a fruit fly is Drosophila melanogaster. The word Drosophila refers to which classification group
What is genus?
500
The six kingdoms from most simple to most complex
What is archaebacteria, eubacteria, protest, fungi, plant, animal