The division of organisms into groups, or classes, based on specific characteristics.
What is classification?
100
An organism that gets food by eating other organisms
What is a heterotroph?
100
Carolus Linnaeus
Who is the creator of modern taxonomy?
100
The four main types of viruses
What is Crystals, Cylinders, Spheres, and Spacecrafts?
100
The kingdom we are in
What is Animalia?
200
A domain made up of prokaryotes that differ from other prokaryotes in the makeup of their cell walls and in their genetics; this domain aligns with the traditional kingdom Arcaheabacteria.
What is Archaea?
200
Prokaryotes
What is a cell without a nucleus?
200
Eukarya, Archaea, Bacteria
What is the 3 domains?
200
Viruses contain _ _ _ to reproduce
What is DNA?
200
The kingdom some scientists want removed from taxonomy
What is Protista?
300
A domain made up of prokaryotes that differ from other prokaryotes in the makeup of their cell walls and in their genetics; this domain aligns with the original kingdom of Eubacteria
What is Bacteria?
300
An example of a eukaryote
What is fungi, protista, animalia, etc.?
300
A branching tool taxonomists use to classify
What is a branching diagram?
300
How viruses reproduce
What is - Destroys host's DNA from a cell and reprogram the cell to make more virus cells; reproducing.
300
The two kingdoms all Bacteria are in
What is Eubacteria and Archaebacteria?
400
A domain made up of all eukaryotes; this domain aligns with the traditional kingdoms Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia
What is Eukarya?
400
A process of asexual reproduction in which a single cell divides itself into two cells of the same size
What is binary fission?
400
Both the broadest and narrowest classification groups (two answers)
What is domains and species?
400
Bacteria's cell type (prokaryotes/eukaryotes)
What is prokaryote?
400
Usually found in extreme environments
What is Archaebacteria?
500
A dichotomous key
What is a classification aid to identify organisms with short, descriptive statements?
500
Mitochondria
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
500
The language taxonomists use in scientific names
What is Latin?
500
Bacteria is ___________ (unicellular/multicellular)
What is unicellular?
500
The 6 kingdoms
What are Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, Archaebacteria, and Eubacteria?