Chapter 15

Question 1

What is nomenclature?

Answer 1

It is a system for naming things.

Question 2

What is classification?

Answer 2

Grouping living organisms into different categories.

Question 3

Who is Carolus Linnaeus and why is he significant?

Answer 3

He was the first to use binomial names of species.

Question 4

True or false: the first part of a binomial name is the genus, which is always capitalized. The second part is the specific species. Both words must be italicized or underlined.

Answer 4

True.

Question 5

What is a taxon? Hint: It is the plural version of taxa. Humans/Homo sapiens are an example.

Answer 5

A taxon is a group of organisms at a particular level in a classification system.

Question 6

What is taxonomy?

Answer 6

A branch of biology that identifies and names various groups.

Question 7

Linnaean system of classification:
D _ _ _ _ n
K _ _ _ _ _ m
P _ _ _ _ m
C _ _ _ s
O _ _ _ r
F _ _ _ _ y
G _ _ _ s
S _ _ _ _ _ s

Answer 7

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum (pl. phyla), Class, Order, Family, Genus (pl. genera), Species (pl. species).

Question 8

Why is the biological species concept not always useful? Hint: This term means that individuals within a species can breed with one another and produce fertile offspring.

Answer 8

It doesn’t work well for animals that asexually reproduce.

Question 9

What is phylogeny?

Answer 9

The evolutionary history of an organism and its relationship to other species.

Question 10

What are the 6 kingdoms?

1) A _ _ _ _ _ _ a
2) P _ _ _ _ _ e
3) F _ _ _ i
4) P _ _ _ _ _ _ a
5) A _ _ _ _ _ a
6) B _ _ _ _ _ _ a

Answer 10

Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea, Bacteria.

Question 11

True or false: archaea are more closely related to eukaryotes than it is to bacteria. Hint: they are both prokaryotes but that does not indicate relation.

Answer 11

True.