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Classifying Organisms-Notes questions
1. What is classification?
1. Classification is the process of grouping things based on
their similarities.
2. How do biologists use classification?
2. Biologists use classification to organize living things into
groups so that the organisms are easy to study.
3. What is taxonomy?
3. Taxonomy is the scientific study of how living things are
classified.
4. What is binomial nomenclature, and who invented it?
4. Binomial nomenclature is a naming system for naming
organisms in which each organism is given a two part
name. Carolus Linnaeus invented it.
5. What is a genus?
5. A genus is a classification grouping that contains similar,
closely related organisms.
6. What does the second part of an organism’s scientific
name do?
6. The second part of an organisms scientific name sets
each species apart from one another in the genus.
7. What are species?
7. A species is a group of similar organisms that can mate
and reproduce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
8. What are the SEVEN levels biologists classify organisms
into?
8. kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and
species.
9. What is the criterion for placing organisms into domains
and kingdoms?
9. Organisms are placed into domain and kingdoms based
on their cell type, ability to make food, and the number of
cells in their body.
10. The more classification levels that two organisms share,
the more characteristics they ________________________.
10. Characteristics they have in common.
11.What are the six kingdoms ?
11.Archea, Bacteria, Protists, Fungi, Plants, and Animals.
12. What is a Prokaryote(? Which two kingdoms are
prokaryotic
12. Prokaryotes are organisms that lack nucleus. The two
kingdoms that are without nucleus are Bacteria and
Archaea.
13. What is a nucleus?
13. A nucleus is a dense area in a cell that contains nucleic
acid.
14. What is nucleic acid?
14. Nucleic acid is the chemical that contains instructions
that direct the cells activities.Example is DNA and RNA
15. What is a Eukaryote(
15. A Eukaryote is an organism with cells that contain
nuclei.
16. Name four kingdoms that eukaryotes.
16. The four kingdoms that have a nucleus are Protists,
fungi, plants, animals.
Number of
cells
Nucleus
present/absent
Autotroph/het
erotroph
Arc Bact Prot Fungi
hae eria ist
Plants Animal
s
one
multi multi
one
abse abse
nt
nt
both both
both multi
pres present prese present
ent
nt
both heterot autotr heterot
roph
oph
roph
18. Classify each of the six kingdoms as Prokaryotes or
Eukaryotes.
18. Bacteria-Prokaryotes, Archaea-Prokaryotes, ProtistsEukaryotes, Fungi-Eukaryotes, Animals-Eukaryotes,
Plants-Eukaryotes