Learning Goals

Learning Goal 1

100

Describe the information needed to classify living things.

Taxonomy is the branch of biology that classifies all living things according to their characteristics that are visible and evoluntairy history.

Learning Goal 2

100

Explain How scientists use phylogeny to group organisms into six kingdoms.

Phylogeny is the organism's evolutionary history which shows how an organism changed over time. By studying fossils, DNA and early stages of development phylogeny can be determined.

200

Name the six kingdoms.

Eubacteria

Archaebacteria

Protista

Fungi

Animalia

Plantae

Learning Goal 3

100

List the Linnaean classification groups from largest to smallest.

• Kingdom

• Phylum

• Class

• Order

• Family

• Genus

• Species

Learning Goal 4

100

Identify the appropriate way scientifically name an organism.

Scientific names are used to avoid mistakes, are descriptive, group similar species together, and allows organization.

Binomial nomenclature takes the genus then the species, with the genus is capital and the species lowercase.

Learning goal 5

100

Explain two things that dichotomous keys help do.

DK identify and name species based on their characteristics. They are comprised of steps with two options which eventually leads to the scientific name.