Classification and Kingdoms of Life

Question 1

What are the 6 kingdoms of life?

Answer 1

Animals, plants, fungi, protists, eubacteria, archaebacteria.

Question 2

Aristotle developed the 1st widely accepted system of biological ______________.

Answer 2

Classification

Question 3

Who developed the method of classification that is currently used?

Answer 3

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 4

Taxonomy: The science of ____________.

Answer 4

Classification

Question 5

Organisms are grouped by biological meaning. What are these groups referred to as?

Answer 5

Taxa

Question 6

How many levels/taxa are there?

Answer 6

8

Question 7

At the top of the hierarchy, there are the _________ # of organisms.

Answer 7

Greatest

Question 8

What is the mnemonic to remember all 8 taxa?

Answer 8

Do Kings Play Cards On Fat Green Stools?

Question 9

What domain are we only studying?

Answer 9

Eukarya

Question 10

What is the system that assigns organisms a scientific name?

Answer 10

Binomial Nomenclature

Question 11

How many parts are there in a scientific name?

Answer 11

2 parts

Question 12

The first word in a scientific name identifies the…..

Answer 12

Genus (a group of similar species).

Question 13

The first word always begins with a ________ letter and is written in ________.

Answer 13

Capital, italics.

Question 14

The second word in a scientific name identifies the…..

Answer 14

Species

Question 15

The second word begins with a _____________ letter and is written in _______.

Answer 15

lowercase, italics

Question 16

What is a genus?

Answer 16

A group of similar species.

Question 17

What is the dichotomous key?

Answer 17

A tool that allows scientists to identify the genus and species of living organisms.

Question 18

What does the dichotomous key look like?

Answer 18

A bracket.

Question 19

Phylogenetic classification is a classification system that shows the ____________ history of _______ and reveals the evolutionary ________________.

Answer 19

evolutionary, species, relationships

Question 20

A cladogram is a picture of how traits _________ and are retained in each sequential organism.

Answer 20

evolve

Question 21

Are prokaryotes unicellular or multicellular?

Answer 21

Unicellular

Question 22

Are eukaryotes unicellular or multicellular?

Answer 22

Mostly multicellular

Question 23

Do prokaryotes reproduce sexually or asexually?

Answer 23

Asexually

Question 24

Do eukaryotes have a nucleus?

Answer 24

Yes

Question 25

Do prokaryotes have a nucleus?

Answer 25

No

Question 26

Are plant and animal cells prokaryotes or eukaryotes?

Answer 26

Eukaryotes

Question 27

Autotrophs are usually....

Answer 27

plants

Question 28

How do heterotrophs obtain their food?

Answer 28

Through other organisms.

Question 29

How do autotrophs obtain their food?

Answer 29

They make it using photosynthesis.

Question 30

Organisms carry out respiration either ___________ with oxygen or ____________ without oxygen.

Answer 30

Aerobically, Anaerobically

Question 31

Non- vascular: -No roots, stems, or leaves -No seeds (but they have spores) -_______ water -Found in swamps, bogs, etc.

Answer 31

Absorbs

Question 32

Is moss a vascular or non-vascular plant?

Answer 32

Non-vascular

Question 33

Vascular plants ______ water.

Answer 33

Store

Question 34

What kinds of seeds do vascular plants have?

Answer 34

Gymnosperms or Angiosperms

Question 35

What is the vascular tissue that vascular plants have?

Answer 35

xylem and phloem

Question 36

What is the function of xylem?

Answer 36

Xylem transports water and solutes from the root to the leaves.

Question 37

What is the function of phloem?

Answer 37

Phloem transports compounds made during photosynthesis in the leaves to other parts of the plant.

Question 38

True or False: Angiosperms are flowering plants. Most trees are angiosperms.

Answer 38

True

Question 39

True or False: Gymnosperms are vascular plants with flowers/fruit.

Answer 39

False- W/O flowers/fruit.

Question 40

How does amoeba move?

Answer 40

By extending the cytoplasm.

Question 41

How does paramecium move?

Answer 41

Hair-like structures called cilia.

Question 42

How does euglena move?

Answer 42

A whip-like tail called the flagellum.

Question 43

What is innate behavior?

Answer 43

Behavior that is inherited, can be influenced by natural selection and passed to offspring.

Question 44

What is learned behavior?

Answer 44

Takes place when behavior changes through practice or experience.

Question 45

What is social behavior?

Answer 45

Behavior among 2 or more organisms within the SAME species. Sometimes can be an instinctive behavior, but most often a social behavior.