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Study Guide Biology Unit 9 Classification
Answer these questions in complete sentences in your own words
due 2/11/16 (Thursday). Test 9 is Friday 2/12/16.
1. You will be required to use a dichotomous key to find the names of several organisms. If you are not sure
how to use the key (like we did in the lab), come in after school for help!!
2. List the kingdoms and their characteristics
3. List the domains and their characteristics
4. What are similarities and differences between the three domains of life?
5. What are the characteristics and functions of prokaryotes?
6. What are similarities and differences between kingdoms in Domain Eukarya?
7. Linnaeus’s two-word system for naming organisms uses the _____ and the _____ as the scientific name.
8. Linnaeus used _____ to group organisms together.
9. Linnaeus published his system of classification _____.
10. Which of the eukaryotic kingdoms has both single celled and multicelled organisms in it?
11. The basic (most specific) biological unit in the Linnaean system of classification is the _____.
12. Which domain(s) undergoes mitosis to divide? Which use fission to divide?
13. What is the largest group organisms can belong to?
14. List all the domains and the kingdoms that belong in them
15. List the hierarchy of taxons from largest to smallest.
16. Explain how the more specific taxons are found inside the larger or more general taxons.
17. Which of the Domains are prokaryotic?
18. Where does the information to make proteins come from?
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Which domain has organisms whose cell walls lack petidglycan?
Which of the kingdoms contain heterotrophic eukaryotic organisms?
Which of the kingdoms contain autotrophic eukaryotic organisms?
Which of the kingdoms and Domains include autotrophs?
What is a cladogram?
What are derived characteristics?
What does evolutionary systematics emphasize the importance of?
Which kingdom contains both unicellular and multicellular organisms?
What are the 3 major kinds of archaebacteria? Describe where they might live.
The process by which cells become specialized in form and function is called
Chitin is a tough material found in the cell walls of which kingdom?
What are the characteristics for the kingdom Protista? (see your "Classification of Living Things" chart)
What are the characteristics for the kingdom Eubacteria? (see your "Classification of Living Things" chart)
What are the characteristics for the kingdom Animalia? (see your "Classification of Living Things" chart)
What are the characteristics for the kingdom Plantae? (see your "Classification of Living Things" chart)
What are the characteristics for the kingdom Fungi? (see your "Classification of Living Things" chart)
What are the characteristics for the kingdom Archaeabacteria? (see your "Classification of Living Things"
chart)
36. Review the Evaluate Tab of Discovery: Diversity of Life: Classification – some questions will come directly
from those bullet points!
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Biology Unit 9