Lesson 2 : Classifying Organisms

Who was the first person to classify organisms?

• Mrs. Beggs
• Aristotle
• Angry Bird
• Darwin

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This greek philosopher placed things into 2 groups: 

• birds and insects
• mammals and reptiles
• plants and animals

1969 - Robert H. Whittaker, American Biologist, came up with a 5 kingdom system for classifying organisms, they are all of these EXCEPT:

• fungi
• plantae
• animalia
• reptilia

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The name of the classification system used TODAY is called:

• Darwin's puzzle
• Systematic
• Cladogram

How many domains are there in classification system?

• 1
• 2
• 3

Which one is NOT a domain?

• Bacteria
• Archaea
• Eukarya
• Prokaryote

Which one are the 6 kingdoms?

• Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
• Monera, Protista, Eukaryote, Prokaryote, Fungi, Reptilia

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Linnaeus created a 2 name naming system called 

• binomial
• binomial nomenclature
• bio
• clature

Organisms are sorted into how many levels of classification?

• 4
• 8
• 7
• 1

The first and broadest category is called?

• Kingdom
• Phylum
• Species