Classification Retest Flashcards
(35 cards)
What are heterotrophs?
Organisms that can’t make their own food.
Name the six kingdoms of living things.
Archaebacteria, eubacteria, protists, fungi, plants, animals.
What are autotrophs?
Organisms that can make their own food.
Name the 7 levels of classification from LARGEST to SMALLEST.
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
What is a tactic to remember this?
King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti
How did Aristotle classify living things?
By how they move.
What is the name of the scientist who developed the naming system that we use today?
Linnaeus
How do protists and Bacteria differ?
Protists are eukaryotes.
Bacteria are prokaryotes.
What is the broadest level of classification?
Kingdom.
What is the most “specific” level of classification?
Species
What is Taxonomy?
Study of Classification.
An organism’s scientific name consists of its________ name and its________ name.
- Genus
2. Species
How many choices are in a dichotomous key?
Two
What is the genus name of “Panthera uncial?”
Panthera
What is the species name of “Lynx rufus?”
rufus.
What are the two differences in asexual and sexual reproduction?
Asexual involves one organism. Sexual involves two.
An organisms genus name always begins with what?
An upper case letter.
A species name always begins with a what?
Lower case letter.
Where two parents combine genetic material to make a new organism.
Sexual Reproduction.
When a bacteria splits into two.
Binary Fission.
Organism that has “more than one” cell.
Multi cellular.
Whip like structure used by euglena to move.
Flagella.
Organism that breaks down dead organisms.
Decomposer.
Substance found floating in cytoplasm?
Genetic material.
