Classification
What kingdom are these questions referring to? Eukaryotic cells? Yes. Multi-cellular? Yes. Mobile? No. Producer? Yes.
Plant
A two name system used to identify an organism's scientific name.
binomial nomenclature
A key used to identify an organism in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characteristics, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
dichotomous key
What does Di mean in Dichotomous key?
two
To be considered alive, an organism must be made of one or more ____________.
cells
This is the second highest taxonomic rank below domain. This level of classification is divided into smaller groups called phyla.
Kingdom
The father of classification
Carolus Linnaeus
How Scientists separate living things
Classification
This language is used for naming organisms.
Latin
To be considered alive, an organism must be able to respond to _____________.
stimuli
What Kingdom is being identified below? 1. Eukaryotic? Yes. 2.Unicellular? Yes. 3. Photosynthesis? Yes.
Protist
True or false: all organisms must be able to mate in order to reproduce
False - some organisms can reproduce asexually, only involving one organism
An organisms scientific name is made up of these two names.
Genus & species
This is what we look at when using a dichotomous key to identify organisms.
physical features.
To be considered alive, an or species must be able to _______________, either sexually or asexually.
Classify the Kingdom based upon the following statements. Yes is the answer to all of the following questions. Is it Eukaryotic? Is it Multi- celled? Is it a decomposer?
Fungi
Humans belong to this kingdom.
Kingdom Animalia
Name the 8 levels of taxonomy in order of most broad to most specific.
Domain, Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
Which organism does not belong? Why?
tree, sunflower, sand, poison ivy
Answers may vary
To be considered alive, an organism must __________ and __________, either indirectly like a frog, or directly like a human.
grow and develop
The 6 Kingdoms are...
What are Plantae, Fungi, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, and Animalia
What kingdom is known as the leftover kingdom. Explain why.
Protist kingdom; it is the place for all other organisms that don't fit in any other kingdom.
What are the answers to the questions on a dichotomous key?
yes or no
Number of decisions at each branch of a dichotomous key.
two decisions
To be considered alive, an organism must use __________.
energy