Biodiversity and Classification

Question 1

Biodiversity

Answer 1

Range of species living in an area

Question 2

Biodiversity hotspots

Answer 2

Internationally recognized places of high diversity and rich endemism

Question 3

Internationally recognized biodiversity hotspots in South Africa

Answer 3

Floristic region
Maputaland- pondoland Albany
succulent Karoo

Question 4

Exotic

Answer 4

species that come from another country or place and is not naturally found in the area

Question 5

Indigenous

Answer 5

Species that are native to an area, meaning they naturally occur there and they originate from there

Question 6

Classification

Answer 6

Sorting and grouping things according to similarity

Question 7

five groups of animals

Answer 7

Domestic
flying
sea
creeping
wild

Question 8

Two kingdom system of classification

Answer 8

All organisms are placed into two large groups or kingdoms

Plantae
Animalia

Question 9

Two kingdoms system of classification ways to distinguish between plants and animals

Answer 9

-Plants can manufacture their own food because they have chlorophyll while animals don’t so they can’‘t

-Plants have cellulose wall while animals do not

-Plants are sedentary while animals are motile

Question 10

Fungi and euglena

Answer 10

Have both animal and plant characteristics .

One has cellulose cell walls making it plant like but no chlorophyll making it animal like

Another has chlorophyll making it plant like but do not have cell walls making them animal like

Question 11

Five kingdom system

Answer 11

monera
protista
fungi
plantae
Animalia

Question 12

Prokaryote

Answer 12

Organism that does not have a definite nucleus and lacks membrane enclosed organelles

Question 13

Eukaryote

Answer 13

Have definite nucleus and membrane enclosed organelles

Question 14

Autotrophic

Answer 14

Ability to manufacture their own food using light energy or energy released from chemical reactions

Question 15

Saprophytic

Answer 15

Growing in or on dead organic matter

Question 16

Saprotrophic

Answer 16

Feeding on dead organic matter

Question 17

taxonomy

Answer 17

The science of naming and classifying the wide range of organisms that exist

Question 18

Three Domain system

Answer 18

Archaea: prokaryotes

Eubacteria: Prokaryotes

Eukarya: Eukaryotes

Question 19

Heterotrophs

Answer 19

Heterotrophic organisms that obtain their food from other living organisms

Question 20

Decomposers

Answer 20

Heterotrophic organisms that break down the material in which they feed, releasing their components for re-use

Question 21

Two domains in which prokaryotes are placed in the two domain system.

Answer 21

Archea
Eubacteria

Question 22

The domain in which eukaryotes are placed

Answer 22

Eukarya

Question 23

Basis of classification used by early humans

Answer 23

They would put those useful to them in one group and those harmful to them in another

Question 24

Basis of classification used by scientists up to the middle of the 19th century

Answer 24

Classification systems were based on physical appearance of organisms

Question 25

Basis of classification used by scientists after Darwin published his theory of evolution

Answer 25

They began to stress evolutionary relationships in their classification systems

Question 26

Three characteristics that scientists used in the two kingdom classification distinguishing plants from animals

Answer 26

-plants autotrophic while animals heterotrophic -Plants have cellulose cell walls while animals don't -plants are sessile while animals are motile

Question 27

What is the binomial system of classification

Answer 27

The method of naming organisms using two Latin names genus and species

Question 28

Seven different categories of taxa developed by Linnaeus

Answer 28

Kingdom division class order family genus species

Question 29

bacteria

Answer 29

Smallest living organisms that require a host to survive