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scientific naming & more
Question | Answer |
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taxonomy | the science of naming species |
Aristotle | (300BC) classified species on where organisms lived and if they had blood |
Homosapian | human being, man's scientific name |
binomial nomenclature | the two part naming system for organisms |
Dichotomous key | tool to identify organisms, di means two |
Levels of organisms | 7, Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
Kingdoms | 6, Archaebacteria, eubacteria, protists, fungus, plants, animals |
Genus | first part of the scientific name of an organism |
Species | second part of the scientific name of an organism |
Scientific names | all in latin |
Reproduction | all but manmade animals, mule and liger |
Mule | cannot reproduce |
Liger | cannot reproduce |
Latin | all scientific names are latin |
Second part of the scientific name | Species |
First part of the scientific name | Genus |
Archaebacteria, eubacteria, protists, fungus, plants, animals | 6 Kingdoms |
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species | 7 Levels of organisms |
two part naming system for organisms | binomial nomenclature |
man's scientific name | homosapian |
Animals | most complex organism |
KPCAFGS | Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
King Philip came over for good spaghetti | Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
Limmaus Carlos | (1700's) used Latin to create binomial nomenclature taxonomy |