Taxonomy Basics

This is the study of classification

• Taxonomy

• Topology

• Autonomy

• Toxology

Classification organizes living creatures based upon

• genetic similarities

• when they were discovered

• where they were discovered

• who discovered them

This is the highest and broadest level of classification:

• kingdom

• species

• phylum

• domain

Domains get split up into:

• species

• classes

• phyla

• kingdoms

This is how many kingdoms there currently are:

• 2

• 4

• 5

• 6

Dogs belong to this kingdom

• Plantae

• Animalia

• Protista

• Fungi

A pine tree belongs to this kingdom

• Plantae

• Animalia

• Protista

• Fungi

A mushroom belongs to this kingdom:

• Plantae

• Animalia

• Protista

• Fungi

Leuwenhook's microscopic "wee beasties", like amoeba and paramecium, belong to this kingdom:

• Animalia

• Plantae

• Fungi

• Protista

Which of these are the two bacteria kingdoms?

• archaebacteria and eubacteria

• eubacteria and fabacteria

• archaebacteria and fabacteria

• fabacteria and endobacteria