Unit 3: Classification

Question 1

______ is the act of arranging things into orderly groups based on similarities

Answer 1

Classification

Question 2

What did taxonomists used to classify organisms based on in the beginning vs now?

Answer 2

Morphology, but now they use DNA analysts, along with other technology and morphology

Question 3

The eight different levels used to classify organisms from biggest to smallest are _______

Answer 3

Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.

Question 4

Organisms are named by using the _______

Answer 4

Binomial nomenclature

Question 5

What are the rules of the binomial nomenclature?

Answer 5

First name is always the genus, must begin with capital letter
second name is the species, never capitalized
if handwritten, both genus and species must be underlined
if printed or typed, both genus and species should be italicized

Question 6

What are the 6 kingdoms?

Answer 6

Animalia, plantae, fungi, protista, eubacteria, archaebacteria

Question 7

What kingdom has Eukaryota cells, is multi-cellular, heterotrophs, lack a cell wall, are able to freely move, eat plants and/or other animals?

Answer 7

Animalia

Question 8

What kingdom has Eukaryota cells, are unicellular and multi cellular, hetero and autotrophs, have cell walls and are made of a variety of molecules, is a very large kingdom, and diverse?

Answer 8

Protista

Question 9

What kingdom is has Eukaryota cells, are multi-cellular, are autotrophs, cell walls made of cellulose, and use photosynthesis?

Answer 9

Plantae

Question 10

What kingdom are prokaryotic, are unicellular, autotrophs and heterotrophs, cell walls made of polysaccharide, first living organisms, survive in harsh conditions?

Answer 10

Archaebacteria

Question 11

What kingdom has Eukaryota cells, are multi-cellular, heterotrophs, cell walls made of chitin, not able to move, found on decaying organisms, get nutrients through their pores?

Answer 11

Fungi

Question 12

What kingdom, is prokaryotic, unicellular, hetero and autotrophs, cell walls made of peptidoglycan, are the most abundant life form?

Answer 12

Eubacteria.

Question 13

What studies the evolutionary history of a group of related organisms?

Answer 13

Phylogeny

Question 14

Used to develop hypothesis about how organisms are related and can determine ancestral connection among organisms

Answer 14

cladogram

Question 15

How are cladograms read?

Answer 15

bottom to top, left to right

Question 16

where is the most ancient and most recent organism placed on a cladogram?

Answer 16

Ancient - root

recent - top