Classification
What is the system of organisation that is used to study the diversity of life?
Classification
What is Binomial Nomenclature (naming)?
The system of assigning a scientific name that consists of two parts.
The first word in an organism’s scientific name represents this.
Genus
There are six of these in the classification scheme (that we are using).
Kingdoms
What is the most specific level of classification?
Species
Land dwellers,
water dwellers,
air dwellers
What are the three groups Aristotle divided animals into?
What is the highest, broadest, level of classification in the system.
Domain
Who came up with the binomial naming system?
Linnaeus
These organisms create their own food which supplies them with energy.
Plants
What level is higher than species but more specific than family?
Genus
The last word in an organism’s scientific name represents this.
An individuals species
The most specific level of classification is?
Species
These organisms get nutrients and energy by consuming other organisms.
Predators or parasites
He set up a classification system based on structures similarities.
Carolus Linnaeus
What level is higher than genus but more specific than Order?
Family
The branch of biology that classifies organisms.
Taxonomy
Kingdom that contains mushrooms and molds.
Fungi
What are the 5 vertebrate groups?
Mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians
What are these three groups known as?
Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya
domains
What level is one higher than family but more specific than class?
Order
What are the levels in classification?
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.
What kingdom do invertebrates belong to?
Animal
What is the main difference between vertebrates and invertebrates?
Vertebrates have an internal skeleton or invertebrates have an exoskeleton
He set up a classification system based on similarities in habitat:
Land
Water
Air
Aristotle
What level is above Order but more specific than Phylum?
Class