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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is the name for the branch of science for classification? | taxonomy |
| who made the classification system used today | carolus linnaeus |
| what is the system of naming organisms called and what are the requirements? | binomial nomenclature, first word is the genus and its capitalized. the second word is the species and its lower case. always in italic |
| what are the 7 groups of classification from largest to smallest? | kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
| what are the 5 kingdoms of living things? | monera, protista, fungi, plantae, animalia |
| monera | unicellular prokaryotic organisms (bacteria) |
| protista | unicellular eukaryotic organisms |
| fungi | multicellular organisms like plants but are heterotrophs |
| plantae | multicellular organisms that are autotrophs (plants) |
| animalia | multicellular organisms that are heterotrophs (animals) |
| dichotomous key | organized set of couplets of mutually exclusive characteristics of living things |