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Classification
Bacteria and Archaea
Archaea and Protists
Fungi and Plants
Plants and Animals
100
This is a branched diagram that shows the relationships among organisms, including common ancestors.
What is a cladogram
100
This is a unicellular organism with NO nucleus.
What is a Prokaryote?
100
This is a member of a group of eukaryotic organisms, which have a membrane-bound nucleus.
What is a Protist?
100
What organisms form threadlike structures that grow into large tangles, usually underground?
What is fungi
100
An animal with no backbone is
What is an invertebrate
200
This is a series of descriptions arranged in pairs that lead the user to the identification of an unknown organism.
What is a dichotomous key.
200
Name the three shapes of a Bacteria.
What are round, rod and spiral?
200
Protists are classified into three groups, name the three groups.
What are plant-like, animal-like and funguslike
200
Name an example of fungi we eat.
What is yeast
200
These living things have choloroplasts and cell walls in their cells.
What is a plant?
300
Describe what species means.
Species is a group of organisms that share similar characteristics and are able to produce fertile offspring.
300
Name one way in which bacteria obtain their food.
1.) Chemical Reactions 2.) Make their own food by using light energy. 3.) Obtain nutrients from living hosts.
300
Are plants prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
What are Eukaryotes?
300
Name two examples of a vertebrate.
What are humans, fish, lizards
400
What gives each organism a two-word scientific name?
What is binomial nomenclature.
400
What does the term extremophile mean?
those that love extremes.
400
These organisms are also known as extremophiles.
What is Archaea?
400
Name an example of fungi we use in medicine.
What is penicillan
400
Name one characteristic of an animal.
Multicellular, Eukaryotic, Digest their own food
500
Name the six kingdoms we have learned about in class.
What are Bacteria, Archaea, Protista, Fungi, Plants and Animals.
500
Where can we find bacteria?
What is everywhere?
500
Name two examples of extreme environments in which Archaea live.
Salt lakes (very salty), hot spots (very high temperatures), environments with very little oxygen.
500
Plants make their own food, a sugar called glucose, through the process of
What is photosynthesis?
500
Organisms that use an outside source such as sunlight to make their own food are called
What is a producer?