Classification
The 5th and 6th categories of classification that break classes into smaller groups with common characteristics.
What are Order and Family?
This kingdom consists of bacterial organisms.
What is Monera?
This class has to have hair, nurse their young,and gives birth to live young.
What is Mammalia?
What are Plants?
Credited with the first system of classifying living things.
Who is Aristotle?
The 2nd category of classification and is based on similarities in basic body structure and organization.
What is Phylum?
This kingdom is multi-cellular and practices photosynthesize.
What is Plantae?
This class is cold-blooded, lays eggs, and has scaly skin.
What is Reptiles?
The phylum that we deal with the most in this class. They must have a backbone and endoskeleton, closed circulatory system with pumping heart, and direct development of young.
What is Chordata?
Is a system of naming organism bytheir genus and species using Latin.
What is Binomial Nomenclature?
The highest category in the Linnaean system of classification.
What is Kingdom?
This kingdom is multi cellular, ingests food, and has movement.
What is Animalia?
This class consists of boney fish that live in water, have permanent gills, fins and scales.
Two other examples of animal phyla (Phylum)
What are Arthopoda and Mollusca?
The science concerned with the naming and classification of organisms.
What is Taxonomy?
The 3rd category of classfication breaks down animals based on body coverings, reproductive system, and temperature regulation.
What is Class?
This kingdom consists of molds and yeasts.
What is Fungi?
This class is birds that are warm blooded, ahve two legs, wings, feathers, and lays eggs.
What is Aves?
A word ending in "idae" stands for this.
What are animals?
A group of animals with common ancestors and distinguishing characteristics.
What is a Breed?
The 6th category of classification refers to a group of closely related species.
What is Genus?
This kingdom consists of paramecia and amoebae
What is Protista?
The basic unit of taxonomic rank.
What is Species?
This subphylum must have a backbone and endoskeleton, closed circulatory system with pumping heart, and direct development of young.
What is Vertebrate?
Is credited with devloping the modern method of classification.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?