Question | Answer |
Kingdom Animalia | Most posess nervous system, felis domesticus, lack cell walls |
Kingdom Protista | Algae, most are single celled, all eukaryotes that arent other kingdoms, evolved from bacteria 2 billion years ago |
Kingdom Eubacteria | No nucleus, Prokaryotes found in human body, all are single celled |
Kingdom Plantae | Ferns, Usually green, use the sun's energy to make sugar |
Kingdom Fungi | Molds Mushrooms, Breaks down materials |
Kingdom Archaebacteria | Have existed for at least 3 billion years, Form yellow hot springs where the temperature is 90 degrees Celcius (194 degrees Ferenheit) |
Classification | the arrangement of organisms into orderly groups based on their similarities and presumed evolutionary relationships |
Kingdom | the most general of the seven kingdoms |
Phylum | the level of classification after phylum; the organisms in all phyla are sorted into classes |
Class | the level of classification after phylum; the organisms in all phyla are sorted into classes |
Order | the level of classification after class; the organisms in all families are sorted into genera |
Species | the most specific of the seven levels of classification; characterized by a group of organims that can mate with one another to prudce fertile offspring |
Dichotomous key | an aid identifying unknown organisms that consists of several pairs of descriptive statements; of each pair of organism, and that statement will lead to another set of statements, and so on, until the unkown organism can be identified |
Taxonomy | the science of identifying, classifying, and naming living things |
Eubacteria | a classification kingdom containing mostly free-living bacteria found in many varied environments |
Archaebacteria | a classification kingdom containing bacteria that thrive in extreme environments |
Binomial Nomenclature | a system for naming organisms |