4-5 Species and taxonomy

Question 1

What is the genus?

Answer 1

• The generic name is the genus to which the organism belongs, if a species is closely related it will share the same name.

Question 2

What does courtship enable individuals to do?

Answer 2

• Recognise members of their own species
• Synchronise mating
• Form a pair bond
• Become able to breed

Question 3

What is classification?

Answer 3

• Classification is the process of naming and organising into groups based on their characteristics.

Question 4

What are the five kingdoms that organisms can be grouped into?

Answer 4

• Animals
• Plants
• Fungi
• Prokaryotes
• Protoctista

Question 5

What are the six groups that these are separated further into?

Answer 5

• Phylum
• Class
• Order
• Family
• Genus
• Species

Question 6

What are the three domains that organisms can be separated into?

Answer 6

• Bacteria
• Archaea
• Eukaryota

Question 7

What are the three ways that the scientific community evaluates the data?

Answer 7

• The findings are published in scientific journals and presented at scientific conferences.
• Scientists then study the evidence in a process called peer review.
• Scientists start collecting evidence to either support or reject the suggestion.