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B1.1 Classification (Topic 2) Flashcards

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What are characteristics?

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The features of an organism.

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What is classification?

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The process of sorting organisms into groups based on their characteristics.

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What are species?

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Each different type of organism is called a species. The members of a species can reproduce offspring that will also be able to reproduce.

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What is a genus?

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A classification group that contains species with similar characteristics (plural - genera).

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What is the Kingdom Animalia/Animals?

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They are multicellular, heterotrophic feeders so no chlorophyll; no cell walls; complex cell structure with no nucleus?

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What is the Kindgom Plantae/Plants?

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Multicellular; autotrophic feeders using chlorophyll; cell walls made of cellulose; complex cell structure with nucleus.

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What is the Kingdom Fungi?

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Multicellular; cell walls not made of cellulose; saprophytic feeders so no chlorophyll; complex cell structure with nucleus.

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What is the Kingdom Protoctista?

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Mostly unicellular (a few are multicellular); complex cell structure with nucleus.

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What is the Kingdom Prokaryotae?

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Unicellular; simple cell structure with no nucleus.

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What is family?

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A classification group that contains genera with similar characteristics.

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What is a Kingdom?

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The largest division in the classification of organisms.

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What does multicellular mean?

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Made of more than one cell.

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What does unicellular mean?

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Made of one cell.

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What is a nucleus?

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The central part of an atom, containing protons and neutrons. The control centre of a cell (plural - nuclei).

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What is bacteria?

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Simple organisms consisting of one cell that does not contain a nucleus (singular - bacterium).

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What is autotrophic feeding?

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Make food from small molecules using an energy source l, such as light in photosynthesis.

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What is photosynthesis?

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Set of chemical reactions in plants that allow them to produce their own food (glucose) using water and carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen as a waste product. The process is powered by the light from the sun.

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What does heterotrophically mean?

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Getting food by eating and digesting the tissues of other organisms.

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What does saprophytically mean?

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Getting food by digesting the tissues of other organisms outside the body and absorbing the digested food.

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What is a virus?

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A partial that can infect cells and cause the cells to make copies of the virus, such a the influenza virus.

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