Biology
Taxonomy Quiz
Name: ___________________________________
For the following questions, use the vocabulary below. You may use any word more than once, or not at all.
Class
Domain
Family
Genus
Kingdom
Order
Phylum
Species
1. All of life can be separated into 3 very large “buckets”, called Eukarya, Archaebacteria, and Eubacteria.
These are all example of ___________________.
2. In this project, we discussed the Phylum that different animals are in. If two animals are in the same
phylum, what else do they have in common? ____________________ & ___________________.
3. “Chordate” is an example of an animal’s ______________________.
4. _________________ is the largest, and least specific “bucket”, or classifier. Organisms that have this in
common may not be very similar to each other.
5. Animals, Plants, Protists, and Fungi each have their own unique ________________________.
--Biology
Taxonomy Quiz
Name: ___________________________________
For the following questions, use the vocabulary below. You may use any word more than once, or not at all.
Class
Domain
Family
Genus
Kingdom
Order
Phylum
Species
1. All of life can be separated into 3 very large “buckets”, called Eukarya, Archaebacteria, and Eubacteria.
These are all example of ___________________.
2. In this project, we discussed the Phylum that different animals are in. If two animals are in the same
phylum, what else do they have in common? ____________________ & ___________________.
3. “Chordate” is an example of an animal’s ______________________.
4. _________________ is the largest, and least specific “bucket”, or classifier. Organisms that have this in
common may not be very similar to each other.
5. Animals, Plants, Protists, and Fungi each have their own unique ________________________.
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Extra Credit
6. Binomial nomenclature is a two-name system. It uses an organism’s __________________ &
_______________ to give it a unique name.
7. _________________ is the smallest, and most specific “bucket”. Organisms that have this in common
will be extremely similar to each other.
8. List the vocabulary in order, from largest to smallest classifiers.
Extra Credit
1. Binomial nomenclature is a two-name system. It uses an organism’s __________________ &
_______________ to give it a unique name.
2. _________________ is the smallest, and most specific “bucket”. Organisms that have this in common
will be extremely similar to each other.
3. List the vocabulary in order, from largest to smallest classifiers.