Classification

Question 1

Classification

Answer 1

classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics

Question 2

Taxonomy

Answer 2

classification on animals

Question 3

Kingdom

Answer 3

a taxonomic category of the highest rank

Question 4

Phylum

Answer 4

taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class

Question 5

Class

Answer 5

taxonomic rank below phylum and above order

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Order

Answer 6

taxonomic rank below class and above family

Question 7

Family

Answer 7

taxonomic rank below order and above genus

Question 8

Genus

Answer 8

genus comes above species and below family

Question 9

Species

Answer 9

A group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other and are usually capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring

Question 10

Animalia

Answer 10

animalia

Question 11

Chordata

Answer 11

vertebrates, tunicates, and lancelets

Question 12

Mammalia

Answer 12

mammals

Question 13

Primate

Answer 13

consists of the lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes including humans, and is characterized by nails on the hands and feet, a short snout, and a large brain

Question 14

Hominid

Answer 14

includes orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and modern humans, and their extinct relatives

Question 15

Linnaeus

Answer 15

Swedish botanist who created the current system for classifying plants and animals

Question 16

Dichotomous Key

Answer 16

a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world, such as trees, wildflowers, mammals, reptiles, rocks, and fish

Question 17

Domain

Answer 17

second highest taxonomic rank of organisms in the three-domain system of taxonomy

Question 18

Archaebacteria

Answer 18

microorganisms that are similar to bacteria in size and simplicity of structure but radically different in molecular organization

Question 19

Bacteria

Answer 19

plural form of bacterium

Question 20

Protista

Answer 20

protists

Question 21

Fungi

Answer 21

fungus

Question 22

Plantae

Answer 22

plants