Baer/Grainer Classification 2016

Question 1

The science of describing, classifying, and naming organisms

Answer 1

Taxonomy

Question 2

The scientific name for a house cat

Answer 2

Domesticus

Question 3

Level of classification made of organisms that are able to mate and produce fertile offspring

Answer 3

Species

Question 4

Scientists classify organisms based on what?

Answer 4

Characteristics

Question 5

What is not considered by scientists when classifying organisms?

Answer 5

How humans use the organism

Question 6

Scientific name for an organism comes from its what?

Answer 6

Genus and species

Question 7

Super scientist that would study organisms in the Fungi kingdom

Answer 7

Mycologist

Question 8

What happened that made it necessary for scientists to add new domains and kingdoms?

Answer 8

Discovery of new organisms

Question 9

An animal that eats other organisms

Answer 9

Consumer

Question 10

Characteristic of protists that means their cells have a nucleus

Answer 10

Eukaryotic

Question 11

A tiny non-living particle that gets inside a cell and often destroys it

Answer 11

Virus

Question 12

How many cells does bacteria have?

Answer 12

One

Question 13

How is bacteria helpful?

Answer 13

Nature’s little recyclers
Used to make many of the foods we eat
Used to help in making medicine

Question 14

What shape is streptococcus?

Answer 14

Spherical

Question 15

How are viruses and humans alike?

Answer 15

They both have DNA.

Question 16

This group is closely related.

Answer 16

Monarch butterfly, wasp, and stinkbug

Question 17

An entomologist would be interested in living things that belong in this kingdom

Answer 17

Animalia

Question 18

Living things in this kingdom possess specialized sense organs that allow them to respond quickly to changes in their environment

Answer 18

Animalia

Question 19

All eukaryotes that are not plants, animals, or fungi

Answer 19

Protista

Question 20

Prokaryotes that may be found in the human body

Answer 20

Bacteria

Question 21

Break down material outside their body and then absorb nutrients

Answer 21

Archaea

Question 22

This kingdom includes non-green, non-moving eukaryotic organisms that break down substances outside their bodies and absorb nutrients

Answer 22

Fungi

Question 23

This kingdom includes complex, multi-cellular organisms that are usually green, have cell walls, and make their own food

Answer 23

Plantae

Question 24

Mushrooms are members of this kingdom

Answer 24

Fungi

Question 25

Sponges are members of this kingdom

Answer 25

Animalia

Question 26

E. coli is a member of this kingdom

Answer 26

Bacteria

Question 27

Evolved from bacteria about 2 billion years ago

Answer 27

Protista

Question 28

A pine tree is a member of this kingdom

Answer 28

Plantae

Question 29

Euglena is a member of this kingdom

Answer 29

Protista

Question 30

A living thing that a virus or parasite live in or on

Answer 30

Host

Question 31

Asexual reproduction in which a single-celled organism splits into 2 single-celled organisms

Answer 31

Binary fission

Question 32

Bacteria that cause disease

Answer 32

Pathogenic

Question 33

Medicine used to treat many diseases

Answer 33

Antibiotics

Question 34

Common shape of a virus

Answer 34

Spaceship

Question 35

Scientific name of poison ivy

Answer 35

Rhus toxicodenadron

Question 36

Medicine used to prevent viral infections

Answer 36

Vaccine

Question 37

Characteristic that a dog and skunk share

Answer 37

Fluffy fur

Question 38

Scientific name of a shark

Answer 38

Carcharodon carcharias

Question 39

Order of the classification system

Answer 39

``` Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species ```

Question 40

What characteristic separates mosquitoes from birds?

Answer 40

Has feathers/no feathers

Question 41

8 word scientific name for a human

Answer 41

``` Eukarya Animalia Chordata Mammalia Primata Hominidae Homo Sapiens ```

Question 42

Thick walled spore containing genetic material and proteins that allows the bacteria to survive a wide variety of harsh conditions

Answer 42

Endospore

Question 43

Common shape of bacteria

Answer 43

Sprial