Question | Answer |
Animal | organisms that have many cells; can’t make their own food; can move |
Binominal Nomenclature | Two part naming system |
Class | largest group within a phylum |
Classify | to group things together based on similarities |
Diversity | variety |
Family | the largest group within an order |
Fungus | organism that has a cell wall and can absorb food from their surroundings |
Fungi | plural for fungus |
Genus | largest group within a family |
Kingdom | largest group of living things |
Moneran | one-celled organisms that do not have a nucleus |
Order | the largest group within a class |
Phylum | largest group within a kingdom |
Plant | organisms made of many cells; have chlorophyll; can make their own food |
Protist | mostly single-celled animals that have a nucleus and other cell parts |
Scientific Name | the genus and species names together |
Species | the smallest group of living things |
Species | group of living things that can breed with others of the same species and produce fertile offspring |
Trait | a feature that at thing has |
Darwin | famous biologist who worked on theory of evolution |
Airpostle | divided organisms into plants and animals; then sm/med/lg plants & land/sea/sky |
Linnaeus | father of taxonomy;developed hierarchical system to classify and name organisms |
Small letter | used on species name of scientific name |
Capital letter | used on genus name of scientific name |
Taxa | eight division system to classify organisms starting with Kingdom |
dichotomous key | tool used to determine the identity of items in the natural world |
Key | consist of a series of choices that lead the user to the correct name of a given organism |
Common Name | every day name used for a specie of animal |