Classification (7th) Flashcards

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What is Taxonomy?

A

Science of grouping and naming organisms. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, first used taxonomy more than 2000 years ago.

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What is a Kingdom?

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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.

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3
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What is the current system of scientific classification?

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Binomial Nomenclature

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_______ __________ created B.N. To classify organisms based on a variety of traits.

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Carolus Linnaeus

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5
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What’s a word that means “two names”

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Binomial

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6
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What does binomial mean?

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“Two names”

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7
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The two word scientific name is usually in _____.

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Latin

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8
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The 1st word is

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The genus (always capitalized)

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9
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The 2nd word is

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The species (always lowercase)

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10
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Both words of the two word scientific name is always written

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In italics or underlined

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11
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What is the smallest category of classification?

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A species

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What is the second smallest category? A group of different species that are similar

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Genus

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13
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There are _____ groups in the present classification system.

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Seven

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What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Monera use?

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They absorb food and/or photo synthesize.

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What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Protista use?

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They absorb, ingest, and/or photosynthesize

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What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Fungi use?

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They absorb food

17
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What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Plantae use?

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They photosynthesize food.

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What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Animalia use?

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They ingest food.

19
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What’s the largest taxonomic category?

A

Kingdom

20
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Below the kingdom is

A

Phylum

21
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What is the phylum divided into?

A

Classes

22
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What are the classes divided into?

A

Order

23
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From the order, the organism will be classified into a _______

A

Family

24
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What is Classification?

A

To group ideas, information, or objects based on similarities.

25
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What are the kingdoms of living things in the Linnaean classification system?

A
Monera
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
26
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What are the seven groups of the present classification system?

A
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order 
Family
Genus 
Species
27
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What is the scientific name for a human?

A

Homo sapiens

28
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A growing number of researchers now divide the Monera into two distinct kingdoms called ___________ and ____________

A

Eubacteria (true bacteria)
and
Archaebacteria (bacteria-like organisms that live in extremely harsh anaerobic environments)

29
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What’s an example of an organism in the Monera Kingdom?

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Bacteria

30
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What’s an example of an organism in the Protista Kingdom?

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Algae

31
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What’s an example of an organism in the Fungi Kingdom?

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Funguses, molds, mushrooms, yeasts, and mildews

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What’s an example of an organism in the Plantae Kingdom?

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Mosses, ferns, flowering plants.

33
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What’s an example of an organism in the Animalia Kingdom?

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Worms, Insects, Reptiles, and Mammals