Classification of Living Things

A heterotrophic eukaryotic organism with a cell wall that decomposes food for energy is in which kingdom?

• Plantae

• Animalia

• Protista

• Fungus

A single celled prokaryote that lives in extremely hot thermal springs in Yellowstone National Park would be in which kingdom?

• Virus

• Protista

• Archaebacteria

• Eubacteria

The two-name naming system used in modern classification of living organisms is called...

• cladogram

• binomial nomenclature

• genetics

• phylogeny

The most specific level of biological classification is...

• kingdom

• genus

• phylum

• species

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-2

Which kingdoms make up the domain Eukarya?

• Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia

• Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi

• Plantae, Animalia, Archaebacteria

• Eubacteria, Archaebacteria

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

 You would find mushrooms in which kingdom?

• Plantae
• Protists
• Fungi
• Animalia

The scientific name for an organism is made from the:

• class and family name
• genus and species name
• domain and kingdom name
• kingdom and phylum name

The modern Biological classification system is based on the pioneering work of:

• Carl Linnaeus

• Isaac Newton

• Charles Darwin

• John Meritus

To which group does the pine true

• Gymnosperms

• Angiosperms

• Dicotyledons

• Monocotyledons

Canis lupus, the scientific name for a wolf, is in which genus?

• Canis

• lupus

• Animalia

• Mammalia