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Classification
Quiz 3/16
Is about …
The process of arranging living things into groups according to similarities in their structure. TAXONOMY: is the science of naming and classifying organisms.
CLASSIFYING: is the act of sorting things into groups.
Moneran Kingdom
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Single celled
Live in large groups
No nucleus, material from the nucleus spread
throughout the cytoplasm
Have a cell wall
EXAMPLES:
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Blue-green algae
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bacteria
Protist Kingdom
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Single celled
SOME make their food and some don’t
SOME move around and some don’t
SOME act like animals and SOME act like
plants
EXAMPLES:
(Protozoans , animal like.)
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Amoeba, Euglena, and Paramecium
(PLANT LIKE)
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Algae
Fungi Kingdom
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Multicelled
Live on dead plants and animals
Don’t move
Reproduce by spores
EXAMPLES:
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Mushrooms
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Bread mold
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Yeast
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Mildew
Plant Kingdom
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Multicelled
Don’t move
Produce own food
Have roots, stem, and leaves
Have a cell wall and chloroplast
EXAMPLES:
Animal Kingdom
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Multicelled
Eat food
Able to move from place to place
EXAMPLES:
CHOOSE YOUR OWN!!!
CHOOSE YOUR OWN!!!
Scientists: Aristotle- one of the 1st scientist to try and classify living things. Linnaeus- the system he created is the basis of the current system we use today!!!
Classification System: Kingdom-Phylum-Class-Order-Family-Genus-Species