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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Monera | kingdom containing bacteria |
| Fungi | kingdom containing mushrooms, yeast, and mold |
| Division | another name for phylum in the plant kingdom |
| phylum | a group of classes |
| order | a group of families |
| class | a group of orders |
| family | a group of genera (plural for genus) |
| scientific name | a name given to each species consisting of its genus and its species label ex: Canis lupus (wolf) |
| organism | a single living thing |
| non-living | referring to something that was never alive does not mean dead |
| obtain | to get |
| basic process of life | growing developing and repairing injuries |
| levels of taxonomy | kingdom phylum class order family genus species |
| 5 kingdoms | plants animals fungi protists monerans |
| protist kingdom | kingdom that is mostly single-celled and are eukaryotic |
| eukaryotic | a cell that has a nucleus |
| nucleus | control center of a nucleus |
| plant kingdom | kingdom that is eukaryotic cells and autotrophs |
| fungi kingdom | multi-cellular eukaryotic absorbs nutrients from other organisms |
| animal kingdom | multi-cellular eukaryotic heterotrophs |