Classification And Evolution Flashcards
1
Q
What is the system used for classifying living things known as?
A
The natural classification system.
2
Q
What are the biggest groups?
A
Kingdoms.
3
Q
What are the similarities in the animal kingdom?
A
All move their their whole body about and their cells do not have cell walls.
4
Q
What is the smallest group?
A
Species.
5
Q
What is a species?
A
A group of organisms that can breed together and produce fertile offspring.
6
Q
How are evolutionary trees built up?
A
They look at the similarities and differences between different groups of organisms.
7
Q
How do scientists work out the evolutionary relationships between organisms?
A
They look at DNA evidence to look for similarities as well as differences.
8
Q
Why do we classify organisms?
A
It helps us to understand how they evolved.
