SB4d: Classification Keywords

Question 1

Classification

Answer 1

Sorting things into groups

Question 2

Domain

Answer 2

The three main groups that organisms are now sorted into: Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya.

Question 3

Genus

Answer 3

A group of similar organisms. The genus name is the first word in the scientific name for a species (the second word is the ‘species name’). Different closely related species belong to the same genus.

Question 4

Kingdom

Answer 4

There are five kingdoms into which organisms are divided: plants, animals, fungi, protists and prokaryotes.

Question 5

Species

Answer 5

A group of organisms that can reproduce with each other to produce offspring that will also be able to reproduce. Organism names have two Latin words – the first is its genus and the second is its species.