Animal Kingdoms

Question 0

What are the two main characteristics that distinguish among the members of the six kingdoms?

Answer 0

1. Difference in cellular structures

2. Methods of obtaining energy

Question 1

What are the six kingdoms of organisms?

Answer 1

1. Archaebacteria
2. Eubacteria
3. Protists
4. Fungi
5. Plants
6. Animals

Question 2

Prokaryotes

Answer 2

Organisms with cells that lack distinct nuclei bonded by a membrane

Question 3

What are the two kingdoms of prokaryotic?

Answer 3

Archaebacteria and Eubacteria

Question 4

Archaebacteria

Answer 4

Live mostly in extreme environments, swamps, deep oceans hydrothermal vents, and seawater evaporating ponds

Question 5

Eubacteria

Answer 5

Live in most habitats except the extreme ones

Question 6

Protists

Answer 6

A eukaryote that lacks complex organ systems and lives in moist environments, plant like and animal like

Question 7

Fungi

Answer 7

Heterotrophs that do not move from place to place

Question 8

Fungus

Answer 8

A unicellular or multicellular eukaryote that absorbs nutrients from organic materials in the environment

Question 9

Plants

Answer 9

Multicellular oxygen producers, photosynthetic eukaryotes

Question 10

What is the oldest plant?

Answer 10

400 million years old

Question 11

How many known species are there of plants?

Answer 11

250,000

Question 12

Animals

Answer 12

Multicellular heterotrophs, that do not have cell walls

Question 13

How are animals cells organized?

Answer 13

1. Cells
2. Tissues
3. Organs

Question 14

Taxonomy

Answer 14

The science of classifying living things

Question 15

Systematics

Answer 15

Organisms are named and grouped according to their evolutionary relationships

Question 16

Who was Carolus Linnaeus?

Answer 16

A taxonomists who paved the way for a common scientific language of naming species with binomial nomenclature.

Question 17

Binomial nomenclature

Answer 17

Each species is assigned a two part scientific genus, and species

Question 18

Genus

Answer 18

A group of closely related species

Question 19

Species

Answer 19

A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring

Question 20

What is the species name a description of?

Answer 20

The organisms habitat, or important trait

Question 21

What are the rules to follow when writing the scientific name of an organism?

Answer 21

1. Scientific name (italics) (cursive)
2. The generic genus must have a capital letter
3. The abbreviation sp is used when the specific name is unknown
4. The scientific name MUST be written in full when it is first used

Question 22

Taxon

Answer 22

A group or level of organization

Question 23

How many taxons are there?

Answer 23

7

Question 24

Family

Answer 24

A group of closely related genera, sharing many characteristics

Question 25

Order

Answer 25

Taxon composed of similar families

Question 26

Class

Answer 26

Taxon composed of similar orders

Question 27

Phylum

Answer 27

Taxon composed of closely related classes

Question 28

Kingdom

Answer 28

Largest taxonomic group consisting of closely related phyla

Question 29

What are the seven different taxons?

Answer 29

1. Kingdom 2. Genus 3. Family 4. Order 5. Class 6. Phylum 7. Species

Question 30

Dichotomous key

Answer 30

An identification guide to help all people identify organisms according to their scientific names

Question 31

Evolutionary classification

Answer 31

Grouping organisms in taxons based on their evolution history

Question 32

Cladogram

Answer 32

Diagram that shows evolutionary relationships among group of organisms.

Question 33

What does the Cladogram tell the scientists?

Answer 33

That the closer two groups share a more recent ancestor than groups farther away

Question 34

Derived character

Answer 34

A trait that makes all of the organisms after that point on the Cladogram different from the organisms below that point on the Cladogram

Question 35

Domains

Answer 35

A larger more inclusive category than kingdom

Question 36

Domain bacteria

Answer 36

Composed of Eubacteria

Question 37

Domain Archaea

Answer 37

Archaebacteria

Question 38

Domain Eukarya

Answer 38

Protista, fungi, Plantae, Animalia