Classification Booklet Flashcards
How do you make an animal’s scientific name.
Take the animals genus and use a capital letter and then take its Species in lower case (put underline when writing)
What does vertebrate
A vertebrate is an animal that has a backbone.
What is an invertebrate
An animal without a backbone
What phylum do all vertebrates belong to
Chordata
What are the classes that the Chordata phylum can be divided into.
Fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, mammal
What are the Phylums that the invertebrate scan be divided into
Cnidaria, arthropod, echinoderm, annelid, mollusc
What is the process that plants go through to provide food for themselves.
Photosynthesis
There are four main types of plant what are they
Mosses, ferns, flowering plants and conifers
Can microbes be uni-cellular or multi-cellular
Yes
What is the difference between bacteria and fungi
Bacteria has no nucleus but fungi does
Why is a virus different from all things that are alive
It can only reproduce if it is inside a living cell.
What is an antibody
It is a protein that white blood cells produce to clump together and disable diseases. Antibodies are specific and can on,y effect one disease
What is Hiv
It is a disease that destroys all the White blood cells in your body which makes your body vulnerable to lots of diseases
How does a vaccine work
It injects dead or weakened samples of the virus so that your white blood cells produce an antibody that can recognise it so that when the real virus comes your body is ready for it.
Why can’t the doctors give you medication for a cold
A cold is a virus and antibiotics can only fight bacterial diseases.
How does an antibiotic disc work
It has antibiotics on it so it shows which one fights off the bacteria the best
What is the MMR vaccine
It is a vaccine that protects you against three diseases measles, mumps and rubella.
Why do some parents not want their children to get he MMR vaccine
It has been linked with causing autism
How do you classify living organisms
Kingdom, Phylum, class, order, family, genus and species
Is a bacteria uni or multi cellular
Uni
What can bacteria be used for
Medicines and producing ingredients like yeast
Do fungi have a nucleus and a membrane
Yes
Do protists have a nucleus and a membrane
Yes
How does your body fight infections
It had white blood cells that can reproduce antibodies that fight off that specific disease
How could food poisoning be stopped
Reduce the amount of meat being eaten
What are the groups that animals are split into to determine their classification
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
