Naming
In this scientific field scientists classify organisms and assign each organism a universally accepted name to be able communicate about them more easily .
What is taxonomy?
These are the eight levels in the modern taxonomic system (from most exclusive to least exclusive).
What are species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, and domain?
This experimental variable is the one that can be manipulated directly by a scientist during an experiment.
What is the independent variable? It gets graphed on the x-axis.
This term means a cell has a nucleus.
What is eukaryotic?
Eubacteria and Archaebacteria have this characteristic in common, not found in the other kingdoms
What is they are prokaryotes (and exclusively unicellular)?
These are the two taxons used to assign scientific names to organisms.
What are Genus and Species?
The smallest (in terms of number of organisms in it) taxon level.
What is species?
True or False. You should be about to determine the question an experiment was trying to answer by looking that the data that was collected.
What is True? The scientist should be able to look at the data collected and figure out what was manipulated and what was measured.
This term describes an organism that cannot make its own food.
What is heterotrophic?
These kingdoms contains motile eukaryotes.
What are protista and animalia?
This the correct structure for a scientific name.
What is Genus species? Genus is capitalized, species is lowercase, and both are italicized.
The largest and most inclusive of taxonomic category.
What is domain? (Archae, Bacteria, and Eukarya)
This is the appropriate step if you read a lab procedure and are still confused.
What is ask the teacher?
When a organism lacks a nucleus, this term is used to describe it.
What is prokaryotic?
This is the only kingdom that is exclusively autotrophic.
What is Plantae?
What is Puma?
Genera (plural of genus) with common characteristic could be grouped in this taxon.
What is a family?
This is the appropriate step if the bell rings and you are not done with your lab work.
What is... talk to your teacher?
This is the term used to describe heterotrophs who do not ingest their food.
What is decomposition?
Fungae and Plantae share these characteristics.
What are multicellular (yeast is a minor exception), eukaryotic, sessile, and cell walls?
This is the scientific name for the American mountain lion is Puma concolor. This is the species it belongs to.
What is the concolor?
Within a phylum, this taxonomic category would be least plentiful (fewer categories, not numbers of organisms).
What is are classes?
This is the variable that is measured during an experiment and is graphed on the y-axis.
What is the dependent (responding) variable?
This term means an organism can move on its own.
What is motile? (sessile means it can't move on its own)
Fungae and Animalia have these characteristics in common.
What is multicellular (yeast are a minor exception), eukaryotic, and heterotropic.