Classification (7th) Flashcards
What is Taxonomy?
Science of grouping and naming organisms. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, first used taxonomy more than 2000 years ago.
What is a Kingdom?
The largest taxonomic category.
Ex: plant and animal kingdoms created by Aristotle. He then further divided the kingdoms according to where the animals lived. His system was criticized and eventually abandoned.
What is the current system of scientific classification?
Binomial Nomenclature
_______ __________ created B.N. To classify organisms based on a variety of traits.
Carolus Linnaeus
What’s a word that means “two names”
Binomial
What does binomial mean?
“Two names”
The two word scientific name is usually in _____.
Latin
The 1st word is
The genus (always capitalized)
The 2nd word is
The species (always lowercase)
Both words of the two word scientific name is always written
In italics or underlined
What is the smallest category of classification?
A species
What is the second smallest category? A group of different species that are similar
Genus
There are _____ groups in the present classification system.
Seven
What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Monera use?
They absorb food and/or photo synthesize.
What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Protista use?
They absorb, ingest, and/or photosynthesize
What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Fungi use?
They absorb food
What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Plantae use?
They photosynthesize food.
What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Animalia use?
They ingest food.
What’s the largest taxonomic category?
Kingdom
Below the kingdom is
Phylum
What is the phylum divided into?
Classes
What are the classes divided into?
Order
From the order, the organism will be classified into a _______
Family
What is Classification?
To group ideas, information, or objects based on similarities.
What are the kingdoms of living things in the Linnaean classification system?
Monera Protista Fungi Plantae Animalia
What are the seven groups of the present classification system?
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
What is the scientific name for a human?
Homo sapiens
A growing number of researchers now divide the Monera into two distinct kingdoms called ___________ and ____________
Eubacteria (true bacteria)
and
Archaebacteria (bacteria-like organisms that live in extremely harsh anaerobic environments)
What’s an example of an organism in the Monera Kingdom?
Bacteria
What’s an example of an organism in the Protista Kingdom?
Algae
What’s an example of an organism in the Fungi Kingdom?
Funguses, molds, mushrooms, yeasts, and mildews
What’s an example of an organism in the Plantae Kingdom?
Mosses, ferns, flowering plants.
What’s an example of an organism in the Animalia Kingdom?
Worms, Insects, Reptiles, and Mammals
