Classification of organisms

What is the language used for scientific names?

• Latin

• English

• Metric

• Spanish

Linnaeus' system of classification would place which of the following organisms into the same group?

• Whales and bats

• bats and penguins

• bats and geese

• penguins and whales

Aristotle's system of classification would place which of the following organisms into the same group?

• bats and penguins

• whales and bats

• bats and geese

• geese and penguins

Which of the following statements is correct?

• There are less than three times the number of animal species than all other species

• Protists and fungi combined have a smaller number of species than plant species

• Eubacteria have the smallest number of species of all the kingdoms

• The number of plant species is less than the number of protist, fungi, eubacteria, and archaebacteria.

A system for naming species in which two words are used to name an organism is

• dichotomous key

• fan diagramming

• cladistics

• binomial nomenclature

Which of the following groups includes organisms that are most closely related?

• species

• order

• family

• genus

Which of the following are considered to be "Earth's decomposers" because of the affinity for absorbing nutrients from dead things.

• Plants

• Fungi

• Protists

• Archaebacteria

Which of the following pairs of terms are most closely related?

• Aristotle-binomial nomenclature

• taxonomy-classification

• protist-prokaryote

• eubacteria-eukaryote

Which of the following are true about mushrooms?

• multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophic

• multicellular, prokaryotic, heterotrophic

• multicellular, eukaryotic, autotrophic

• unicellular, prokaryotic, heterotrophic

Which of the following is the kingdom of all multicellular autotrophs?

• Animals

• Fungi

• Plants

• Archaebacterial