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Levels of Classification
History of Classification
The Naming System
Characteristics
Ranks
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We are more general or bigger categories than classes.
What are kingdom and phylum?
100
Over time, this and other processes have lead to a staggering diversity of organisms.
What is natural selection?
100
The language used for classification is this.
What is Latin?
100
A Kingdom of the Domain Eukarya whose organisms have no cell walls.
What is the Kingdom Animalia?
100
Includes only Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukayra.
What is Domain?
200
I am the most specific level of classification.
What is species?
200
He developed the naming system called Binomial Nomenclature.
Who is Carolus Linneaus?
200
Scientists chose to use one language for classification for this reason.
What is to make it easier to communicate?
200
The two Kingdoms of the Domain Eukarya that cannot be unicellular.
What are the Kingdom Plantae and the Kingdom Animalia?
200
Consists of a group of similar species.
What is a Genus?
300
I am the largest category of classification.
What is a kingdom?
300
The two words in a Latin name stand for these two levels of classification.
What are genus and species?
300
Binomial nomenclature refers to the use of this many words in naming an organism.
What is two?
300
How organisms are classified into domains today.
What is cell type and structure?
300
The four Kingdoms of the Domain Eukarya.
What are the Kingdom of Protista, the Kingdom of Fungi, the Kingdom of Plantae, and the Kingdom of Animalia?
400
Mammals are an example of this category.
What is class?
400
According to Linnaeus, the seven levels of classification are (from largest to smallest):
What are Kingdom, Pylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
400
A scientist who specializes in classifying living things is called this.
What is a taxonomist?
400
Animals that have hair or fur and whose young drink milk.
What is the Class Mammalia?
400
Why do you think Linnaeus did not include classification Kingdoms for categories of bacteria?
May not have had access to microscopes strong enough to see bacteria.
500
"King Philly Cooks Octopus For Good Sushi" helps students remember this.
What are the different levels of classification?
500
To study the diversity of life, biologists use this system to name organisms and group them in a logical manner.
What is classification system?
500
Type of key that separates organisms based on sequences of DNA.
What is phylogenetic tree?
500
Not a part of the classification system because they are non-living, do not posses cells, and are simply nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat.
What are viruses?
500
Why do we have more Kingdoms now than we did 300 years ago?
New organisms are being discovered which don't fit into existing Kingdoms.