classification

Question 1

Classification

Answer 1

the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics.

Question 2

Taxonomy

Answer 2

the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics.

Question 3

Kingdom that humans belong to

Answer 3

Animal

Question 4

Phylum that humans belong to

Answer 4

Chordata

Question 5

Class that humans belong to

Answer 5

Mammalia

Question 6

Order that humans belong to

Answer 6

Primates

Question 7

Family that humans belong to

Answer 7

Great apes

Question 8

Genus that humans belong to

Answer 8

Humans

Question 9

Species that humans belong to

Answer 9

H. sapiens.

Question 10

Animalia

Answer 10

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.

Question 11

Chordata

Answer 11

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

Question 12

Mammalia

Answer 12

Mammals are vertebrate animals within the class Mammalia from Latin mamma “breast”) characterized by the presence of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands, which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young.

Question 13

Primate

Answer 13

the chief bishop or archbishop of a province.

Question 14

Hominid

Answer 14

a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors and also (in recent systems) at least some of the great apes.

Question 15

Linnaeus

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Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the “father of modern taxonomy”.

Question 16

Dichotomous Key

Answer 16

A dichotomous key is a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world, such as trees, wildflowers, mammals, reptiles, rocks,

Question 17

Archaebacteria

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microorganisms that are similar to bacteria in size and simplicity of structure but radically different in molecular organization. They are now believed to constitute an ancient intermediate group between the bacteria and eukaryotes.

Question 18

Bacteria

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a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms that have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease.

Question 19

Protista

Answer 19

The Protista is an heterogeneous group of eukaryotic organisms. That is, the nucleus is surrounded by a nuclear envelope, and they contain organized plastids and mitochondria. Most protists are unicellular, but there are some relatively simple multicellular forms.

Question 20

Fungi

Answer 20

Fungi is the plural word for “fungus”. A fungus is a eukaryotic organism. Yeasts, moulds and mushrooms are examples of fungi. The study of fungi is called mycology. Like animals, humans and most bacteria, all fungi are heterotrophs.

Question 21

Plantae

Answer 21

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants.