Bio 20: Section 3.2

Question 1

what is the practice of classifying organisms called?

Answer 1

taxonomy

Question 2

what is the system that is used to name organisms called?

Answer 2

binomial nomenclature

Question 3

who was the earliest person known to attempt to classify animals?

Answer 3

Aristotle

Question 4

what invention might have caused problems for Aristotle’s classification methods?

Answer 4

the microscope

Question 5

what are the 6 kingdoms?

Answer 5

archea
bacteria
protista
fungi
plantae
animalia

Question 6

what are the two prokaryotic kingdoms?

Answer 6

archea & bacteria

Question 7

what is the difference between the two kingdoms?

Answer 7

archea live in extreme env. (extremophiles)

Question 8

what is the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic?

Answer 8

prokaryotic lack a nucleus, while eukaryotic have a nucleus

Question 9

what can plantae and animalia not be, but protista and fungi can be?

Answer 9

unicellular

Question 10

what are examples of protista?

Answer 10

algae, protozoa, euglena, amoeba

Question 11

what are examples of fungi?

Answer 11

mushrooms, yeast, molds

Question 12

what are examples of plantae?

Answer 12

mosses, ferns, flowering plants, trees

Question 13

what are examples of animalia?

Answer 13

insects, mammals, birds fish

Question 14

which of the kingdoms are sessile?

Answer 14

fungi & plantae

Question 15

which of the kingdoms can photosynthesize, ingest, or decompose their food?

Answer 15

protista

Question 16

which of the kingdoms is a decomposer?

Answer 16

fungi

Question 17

true/false: eukaryotic have the ability to be multicellular

Answer 17

true

Question 18

which of the kingdoms have complex and specialized cells?

Answer 18

plantae & animalia

Question 19

how many domains are there?

Answer 19

3

Question 20

prokaryotic/eukaryotic: reproduce asexually

Answer 20

prokaryotic

Question 21

a tail

Answer 21

flagella

Question 22

archaea/bacteria: heterotrophic by absorption

Answer 22

bacteria (archaea sometimes)

Question 23

archaea/bacteria: autotrophic by chemosynthesis

Answer 23

both

Question 24

archaea/bacteria: move by flagella

Answer 24

bacteria

Question 25

archaea/bacteria: unique rRNA base sequence

Answer 25

archaea

Question 26

archaea/bacteria: distinctive plasma membrane & cell wall chemistry

Answer 26

archaea

Question 27

why is latin used for classification?

Answer 27

b/c of its unchanging nature (dead lang.)

Question 28

Linnaeus suggested a 2 name system to simplify an organism’s classification, called…

Answer 28

binomial nomenclature

Question 28

what are the 8 categories of classification?

Answer 28

domain
kingdom
phylum
class
order
family
genus
species

Question 29

what are the features of bionomial nomenclature?

Answer 29

first word is capitalized
there’s a space b/w words
the whole name is italicized
in Latin

Question 30

what is the formation of binomial nomenclature?

Answer 30

Genus species (italicized)

Question 31

to figure out the name of an unknown specimen, a recipe-like series of steps is used: ___________________ ______

Answer 31

dichotomous key

Question 32

what are the 2 statements in a step of a dichotomous key?

Answer 32

either THIS or THAT (based on physical appearance)

Question 33

what does “nucleus” mean in latin?

Answer 33

karyo

Question 34

what does “early” mean in latin

Answer 34

pro

Question 35

what does “eu” mean in english?

Answer 35

true