Biology - Classification

Which of the following organisms are LEAST closely related?

• organisms that share a domain
• organisms that share a family 
• organisms that share a genus 
• organisms that share a species 

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The scientific name for an organism is made from the:

• class and family name
• genus and species name
• domain and kingdom name
• kingdom and phylum name

Which kingdom contains members who are prokaryotic?

• Archaebacteria and Eubacteria
• Archaebacteria and Protista
• Eubacteria and Animalia
• Eubacteria  and Fungi

Members of this kingdom live in unusual conditions such as deep ocean trenches or volcanoes

• Eubacteria
• Protista
• Fungi
• Archaebacteria

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Molds, yeast, and mushroom belong to kingdom:

• Eubacteria
• Archaebacteria
• Protista
• Fungi

Members of this kingdom never have a cell wall

• Animalia
• Plantae
• Archaebacteria
• Protista

Tool used by a taxonomist to identify an unknown organism is a:

• dichotomous key
• binomial nmenclature
• scientific name
• binomial key

The 8 levels of classification, most broad to most specific.

• Domain, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom, Species
• Domain, Species, Kingdom, Genus, Phylum, Family, Class, Order
• Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
• Order, Kingdom, Species, Domain, Phylum, Family, Class, Genus

Which kingdom consists of heterotrophic organisms that grow on or in what they eat?

• archaea
• bacteria
• protists
• fungi

Examples of fungi:

• Algae, mushrooms, and Staphylococcus
• Amoeba, molds, and Salmonella
• Water molds, yeast, and E. coli
• Yeast, mushrooms and molds