FREE BIOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT TAXONOMY

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FREE BIOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT TAXONOMY

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Question 1: Phylum

Answer:

The taxonomic level below kingdom and above class.

Question 2: What organisms are in the Eukarya domain?

Answer:

Organisms whose cells have nuclei and membrane-bound organelles.

Question 3: Prokaryotic Cell

Answer:

A cell lacking a nucleus or any other membrane-enclosed organelle.

Question 4: What two methods are used to classify organisms?

Answer:

Dichotomous Key and Cladogram

Question 5: Genus

Answer:

The taxonomic level below the family and above the species; the first part of the binomial nomenclature.

Question 6: Family

Answer:

The taxonomic level below order and above genus.

Question 7: Multicellular

Answer:

Composed of more than one cell.

Question 8: Dichotomous Key

Answer:

A tool used to classify an organism through a series of questions with only two possible answers.

Question 9: Heterotrophic (heterotroph)

Answer:

An organism that must consume other organisms for energy.

Question 10: What are the three domains?

Answer:

Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya

Question 11: Why do we need a world wide standard of classifying living things?

Answer:

Because before communication about organisms was impossible with all the different names and classification techniques.

Question 12: Kingdom

Answer:

The highest level of taxonomic classification beneath that of the three domains.

Question 13: What is binomial Nomenclature?

Answer:

The two most specific taxonomic levels (genus, species) that animals are most commonly referred to.

Question 14: Chemotropic (chemotroph)

Answer:

An organism that can produce its own nourishment through the process of oxidizing inorganic compounds.Question 15: Who was the first person to classify living things based on their characteristics?

Answer:

Aristotle Question 16: What order to the levels of classification go in? Broadest to smallest.

Answer:

Domain-Kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species

Question 17: Phylogeny

Answer:

The evolutionary development of a species.

Question 18: What is a cladogram?

Answer:

A branch diagram that shows the evolutionary relationship between organisms

Question 19: What is a dichotomous key?

Answer:

A type of flow chart used to classify organisms based on traits. Each step brings you closer to the latin name of the organism.

Question 20: Eukaryotic Cell

Answer:

A cell with a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.

Question 21: Class

Answer:

The taxonomic level below phylum and above order.

Question 22: Species

Answer:

A group of organisms that can interbreed to generate fertile offspring.

Question 23: Sexual Reproduction

Answer:

The reproductive process involving two parents whose genetic material is combined to produce a new organism different from themselves.

Question 24: Order

Answer:

The taxonomic level below class and above family.

Question 25: What organisms are in the bacteria domain?

Answer:

Unicellular organisms that live everywhere around the world.

Question 26: Cladogram

Answer:

A branching diagram representing a hypothesis about the evolutionary descent of groups of organisms from a common ancestor.

Question 27: What kingdoms are in the Eukarya domain?

Answer:

Protista, plantae, fungi, and animalia.

Question 28: What is the broadest level of classification?

Answer:

The domain