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What are the 8 levels of classification in order from largest to smallest?
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
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How many different domains are there?
3
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How many different kingdoms are there?
6
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What is the 2 word system for naming organisms?
binomial nomenclature
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This group of vertebrates can feed their young milk and have hair or fur.

mammals

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What is the broadest (largest) level of classification?
domain
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Name the 3 domains.
Archae, Bacteria, Eukarya
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Name the 6 Kingdoms.
Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Arachaebacteria, and Eubacteria
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What is the process of naming and classifying organisms?
taxonomy
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This group of animals makes up 95% of all animals on Earth.

invertebrates

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What is the most specific (smallest) level of classification?
species
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What domain are humans and other animals in?
Eukarya
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What is the only kingdom where all members have cells that lack cell walls completely?
animal
300
What two words make up a scientific name? (What is the first word and what is the second word?)
genus and species
300

Organisms in this Kingdom are often found living in pond water. They can be autotrophs or heterotrophs.

Protists

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What is the category that contains many similar organisms grouped together?

kingdom

400
What domain contains very extreme bacteria, whose names often end in -phile?
Archaea
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Name 2 differences between plants and fungi.
plants are autotrophs, fungi are heterotrophs; plant cell walls have cellulose, fungi cell walls have chitin
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How can you tell if two things are definitely two different species? (Hint: What is the definition of biological species?)
Two different species cannot successfully interbreed or reproduce together.
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What are the specialized structures that similar tissues are organized into?
organs
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What is the category that contains organisms that can reproduce with one another?

Species

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What domain contains organisms such as E. coli?

Bacteria

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Name 2 differences between the plant and animal kingdom.
plants are autotrophs, animals are heterotrophs; plants have a cell wall, animals do not
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What is an organism that results from interbreeding between two species? (Hint: This organism is often sterile, like a mule.)
a hybrid
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What is the only domain to contain multicellular organisms?
Eukarya