Introduction to plants Flashcards

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How is the name of the organism written?

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Genus species (italics, underlined)

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What is the hierarchical classification?

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domain
Kingdom
phylum
class
order
family
genus 
species
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What are cladistics?

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Groups of organisms based on the characteristics that they have.

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What is the phylum called in plants?

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Division

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What are the three domains of life?

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Archaea bacteria and eukarya

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What 3 big characteristics do plants have?

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autotrophic photosynthetic and cell wall

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What is the cell wall of plants made of?

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cellulose

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What is cellulose?

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cellulose is a polysaccharide made of many sugars made up of a whole bunch of glucose units put together.

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What other kingdoms have the characteristics like plants?

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protest and bacteria. algae are protest and have photosynthetic capabilities.

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What kingdom, division and characteristics do algae have?

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kingdom is protista
division- chlorophyta -green
phaeophyta- brown
rhodophyta- red

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