Biodiversity

Question 0

What are the 3 levels of biodiversity?

Answer 0

1. Species
2. Genetics
3. Ecosystems

Question 1

What is biodiversity?

Answer 1

Life in the world of a particular habitat or ecosystem.

Question 2

What are the 5 benefits of biodiversity that we value?

Answer 2

1. Animals that pollinate plants and crops
2. Micro organisms make nutrients
3. Ecosystem cycle carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen
4. Ecosystems clean air, purify water, modify climate.
5. Provide raw materials for medicine, food/ agriculture

Question 3

What is a keystone species?

Answer 3

A keystone species are species that have a large effect on the environment.

Question 4

What is a dichotomous key?

Answer 4

A dichotomous key are questions used to identify something

Question 5

What is taxonomy?

Answer 5

Taxonomy is the science of grouping and naming organisms

Question 6

What is classification?

Answer 6

Classification is grouping information or objects and finding similarities.

Question 7

What is taxonomist?

Answer 7

Taxonomists are unique scientific names for species and finding out whether they are alive or extinct.

Question 8

Binomial Nomenclature is __________________________. The ______ name is written first. The ______ name is written second.

Answer 8

1. A two name system for writing a scientific name.
2. Genus name
3. Species name

Question 9

What are the seven levels of classification?

Answer 9

1. Kingdom
2. Phylum
3. Class
4. Order
5. Family
6. Genus
7. Species

Question 10

What are the six kingdoms?

Answer 10

1. Animalia
2. Plantae
3. Protista
4. Fungi
5. Eubacteria
6. Archaeabacteria

Question 11

What is morphology?

Answer 11

Morphology are organisms that share common ancestry and have similar anatomical structures also known as HOMOLOGY.

Question 12

What is phylogeny?

Answer 12

Phylogeny is the history of an organism.

Question 13

What is phylogenetic tree?

Answer 13

Phylogenetic tree is a family tree that shows a hypothesis about relationships thought to exist among groups of organisms.

Question 14

What are the three domains?

Answer 14

1. Bacteria
2. Archaea
3. Eukarya

Question 15

What are the two types of cells and what are their differences?

Answer 15

The two types of cells are prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Prokaryotes are smaller simpler and don’t have a nucleus it includes all bacterial cells. Eukaryotes are larger have a nucleus and includes plants, animals, fungi, and protist cells.