Intro zoology, taxonomy, cladograms practice quiz

Unicellular, prokaryotic organisms that live in extreme environments, describes...

• Animal

• Archaea

• Bacteria

• Plant

The science of describing, classifying, and naming living things is called:

• Geology
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Chemistry

The 8 levels of classification, broadest 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

An example of an unicellular organism would be:

• monkey
• bacteria
• spider
• human

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Mosquitos belongs to what kingdom?

• Animal Kingdom
• Plant Kingdom
• Fungi Kingdom
• Protista Kingdom

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Dandelion, what kingdom does it belongs to?

• Plant Kingdom
• Animal Kingdom
• Fungi Kingdom
• Protista Kingdom

Problems with the earliest classification of organisms included:

• not all organisms fit into either plant or animal (ex. fungus and bacteria)

• common names could be misleading (ex. a jelly fish isn't really a fish)

• common names vary from place to place (ex. mountain lion, puma, cougar)

• the same organisms have different names in different countries (ex. English: chipmunk ... Italian: tamia ... German: streifenhornchen)

The two naming system used by scientists is called __________.

• binomial nomenclature

• scientific naming system

• bionic namenclosure

• biological nomenclature

In the two naming system (that scientists use to name organisms), the first name is the _______ and is always capitalized.

• species

• family

• genus

• domain

In the two naming system (that scientists use to name organisms), the second name is the _______ and is always lower case.

• species

• family

• genus

• domain