Domains and Kingdoms

Which of the following is NOT true about bacteria?

• Bacteria can be autotrophic or heterotrophic.

• Bacteria are prokaryotes.

• Bacteria have a cell nucleus.

• Bacteria are unicellular.

Which of the following is true about animals?

• Animals are eukaryotes.

• Animals are autotrophic.

• Animals are unicellular.

• Animal cells do not contain nucleic acids.

Bacteria and archaea are placed in separate kingdoms because...

• ...they are both unicellular.

• ...their structure and chemical makeup differs.

• ...bacteria are autotrophs and archaea are heterotrophs.

• ...bacteria are prokaryotes and archaea are eukaryotes.

Organisms belonging to which kingdom are all autotrophs?

• fungi

• plants

• protists

• animals

The dense area of a cell that contains nucleic acids is the ___.

• nucleus

• mitochondira

• lysosome

• vacuole

In the modern system of classification, the three domains are Bacteria, Archaea, and ___.

• Eukaryotes

• Prokaryotes

• Fungi

• Animals

An organism whose cells lack a nucleus is called a(n) ___.

• eukaryote

• prokaryote

• autotroph

• heterotroph

Most members of the ___ kingdom feed by absorbing nutrients from dead or decaying organisms.

• plants

• animals

• fungi

• protists

Multicellular organisms that make their own food belong to the ___ kingdom.

• plant

• animal

• fungi

• protist

Which four kingdoms belong to the domain Eukarya?

• prokarya, archaea, eukarya, bacteria

• protists, fungi, plants, animals

• mite, tick, scorpion, spider

• class, order, family, genus