Life Classes

Question 1

Highest class of life

Answer 1

Domain

Question 2

Under Domain: prokaryotic, oldest life forms; usually bacteria

Answer 2

Archea

Question 3

Under Domain: prokaryotic; most of the little critters that can make you sick

Answer 3

Bacteria

Question 4

Under Domain: anything that has a nucleus

Answer 4

Eukarya

Question 5

What comes after Domain?

Answer 5

Kingdom

Question 6

Under Eukarya Domain: includes yeast and mushrooms

Answer 6

Fungi

Question 7

Under Eukarya Domain: includes moss

Answer 7

Plantae

Question 8

Under Eukarya Domain: includes humans

Answer 8

Animalia

Question 9

Under Eukarya Domain: includes algae, amoebas, paramecium

Answer 9

Protista

Question 10

What comes after Kingdom?

Answer 10

Phylum

Question 11

Under Plantae Kingdom: the mosses

Answer 11

Bryophyta

Question 12

Under Plantae Kingdom: the ferns

Answer 12

Pterophyta

Question 13

Under Plantae Kingdom: flowering plants

Answer 13

Angiosperms

Question 14

Under Angiosperm Phylum: grasses, lillies, irises

Answer 14

Monocotyledonae (monocots)

Question 15

Under Angiosperm Phylum: most trees, shrubs, and familiar flowers

Answer 15

Dicotyledonae (dicots)

Question 16

Under Animalia Kingdom: Includes sponges. Key features: no body symmetry, sessile

Answer 16

Porifera

Question 17

What comes after Phylum?

Answer 17

Class

Question 18

Under Animalia Kingdom: jellyfish, hydra, corals. Key feature: radial body symmetry

Answer 18

Cnidaria

Question 19

Under Animalia Kingdom: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes. Key features: bilateral symmetry, often parasitic

Answer 19

Platyhelminthes

Question 20

Under Animalia Kingdom: roundworms, ascaris species, trichinella. Key feature: digestive tract

Answer 20

Nematodes

Question 21

Under Animalia Kingdom: earthworms, leeches, marine annelids. Key feature: worms having segmented bodies

Answer 21

Annelids

Question 22

Under Animalia Kingdom: crustaceans, insects, arachnids. Key features: “jointed foot”, chitinous exoskeletons, most diverse group of animals, bilateral symmetry

Answer 22

Arthropoda

Question 23

Under Animalia Kingdom: octopuses, squid, snails, slugs, bivalves. Key features: soft bodies, a muscular “foot”

Answer 23

Mollusks

Question 24

Under Animalia Kingdom: sea stars, crinoids. Key features: tough outer skin, 5-part radial symmetry

Answer 24

Echinoderms

Question 25

Under Animalia Kingdom: tunicates, fish, reptiles, mammals. Key features: notochord, thyroid, pharyngeal slits

Answer 25

Chordata

Question 26

Under Chordata Phylum: frogs, toads, salamanders

Answer 26

Amphibia

Question 27

Under Chordata Phylum: birds

Answer 27

Aves

Question 28

Under Chordata Phylum: cartilaginous fish (sharks and rays)

Answer 28

Chondrichthyes

Question 29

Under Chordata Phylum: bony fish

Answer 29

Osteichthyes

Question 30

Under Chordata Phylum: any animal that produces milk

Answer 30

Mammalia

Question 31

Under Chordata Phylum: turtles, snakes, gators

Answer 31

Reptilia

Question 32

What comes after Class?

Answer 32

Order

Question 33

Under Mammalia Class: carnivores

Answer 33

Carnivora

Question 34

What comes after Order?

Answer 34

Family

Question 35

What comes after Family?

Answer 35

Genus

Question 36

What comes after Genus?

Answer 36

Species

Question 37

Under Order Carnivora: dogs, foxes, wolves

Answer 37

Canidae

Question 38

Under Order Carnivora: cats

Answer 38

Felidae

Question 39

Under Mammalia Class: humans

Answer 39

Primates

Question 40

Under Order Primates: humans

Answer 40

Hominidae

Question 41

Under Hominidae Family : humans

Answer 41

Homo

Question 42

Under Homo Genus: humans

Answer 42

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