Categories
What are the 8 levels of classification in order from largest to smallest?
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
What many different domains are there?
3
How many different Kingdoms are there?
6
What is the 2 word system for naming organsims?
Binomial nomenclature
This adaptation allows animals to have specialized cells that perform different functions
True Tissues
What is the broadest (largest) level of classification?
Domain
Name the 3 domains.
Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya
Name the 6 Kingdoms
Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaebacteria, and Eubacteria
What is the process of naming and classifying organisms?
Taxonomy
This body plan allows animals to sense their environment equally from all directions.
Radial Symmetry
What is the most specific (smallest) level of classification?
Species
What domain are humans and other animals in?
What is the only kingdom where all members have cells that lack cell walls completely?
Animal Kingdom
What two words make up a scientific name? (What is the first word and what is the second word?)
Genus and species
This adaption concentrated sensory organs and nervous tissue at the front end of the body.
Cephalization
What is the category that contains many similar phyla?
Kingdom
What domain contains very extreme bacteria, whose names often end in -phile?
Archaea
Name 2 differences between plants and fungi.
Plants are autotrophs, fungi are heterotrophs; Plant cell walls have cellulose, fungi cell walls have chitin.
How can you tell if two species are related or not? (What part of the scientific name would be the same?)
The scientific name would have the same genus.
This adaptation provides protection, support, and prevents the organism from drying out.
Exoskeleton
What is the category that contains many similar families?
Order
What domain contains bacteria that we may encounter such as E. Coli?
Bacteria
Name 2 differences between the plant and animal kingdom.
Plants are autotrophs, animals are heterotrophs; Plants have a cell wall, animals do not.
Who "invented" binomial nomenclature? Who designed the two=part naming system?
Carolus Linnaeus
This adaptation divided the body into repeating sections, allowing different segments to specialize while improving movement.
Segmentation