Living Organisms

Question 1

The discipline of naming or classifying organisms

Answer 1

Taxonomy

Question 2

one of the first scientists to organize living things using taxonomy

Answer 2

Aristotle

Question 3

the father of modern taxonomy

Answer 3

Carl Linnaeus

Question 4

What were the kingdoms Linnaeus divided living organisms into?

Answer 4

plants and animals

Question 5

What were the Original four levels of each kingdom?

Answer 5

1. class
2. order
3. genus
4. species

Question 6

Who added three more kingdoms in 1969?

Answer 6

Robert Whittaker

Question 7

prokaryotic, unicellular organisms made up of various kings of bacteria

Answer 7

monera

Question 8

eukaryotic, single-celled organisms made up of various kinds of bacteria

Answer 8

protista

Question 9

includes musrooms, yeasts, and certain types of molds

Answer 9

fungi

Question 10

studied RNA and divided the prokaryotes of kingdom monera into two kingdoms

Answer 10

Carl Woese

Question 11

What are the seven levels of taxonomy today?

Answer 11

1. kingdom
2. phylum
3. class
4. order
5. family
6. genus
7. species

Question 12

What are the six kingdom levels?

Answer 12

1. animalia
2. plantae
3. fungi
4. protista
5. archaebacteria
6. eubacteria

Question 13

organisms that are able to naturally interbreed and produce fertile offspring

Answer 13

species

Question 14

organisms that are named based on their genus and species

Answer 14

binomial nomenclature

means “ two names”

Question 15

how do bioligists classify organisms?

Answer 15

based on their beliefs about lines of evolutionary descent

Question 16

the belief that some species are similar becuse of a common ancestor, which would require beand new genetic information to be added to the genome of an orgnaism

Answer 16

evolutionary theory

Question 17

the belief that God created a wide cariety of unique creatures with a large gene pool, and over time, becuase of migration and naturla selection, this led to many changes within the created species

Answer 17

special creation

Question 18

not the proof of macroevolution or special creation

Answer 18

seciation