What is taxonomy?

• The study of DNA and RNA

• The study of organisms in their habitat

• The study of how organisms are related

• The study of classifying and describing organisms

What scientist gave us the classification system we use today?

• Mendel

• Darwin

• Linnaeus

• Watson

Choose the order of correct taxa from LARGEST to SMALLEST.

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

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

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

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

What are the 3 domains?

Which domain is capable of living in extreme environments like hot springs, geysers, or very salty waters?

Which domain includes animals and plants?

Which two organisms are likely to be the least closely related?

• two organisms from the same kingdom

• two organisms from the same family

• two organisms from the same order

• two organisms from the same genus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Almost all bacteria are...

• Unicellular
• Multicellular

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

To say that an organism is heterotrophic means...

• it cannot reproduce asexually
• it cannot make its own food
• it cannot breathe oxygen gas

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Organisms whose cells have NO nucleus are classified as...

• Eukaryotic
• Prokaryotic
• Dead