Unit 5 Academic Vocabulary

the division of organisms into groups, or classes, based on specific characteristics

• Taxonomy

• Evolution

• Classification

• Kingdoms

the science of describing, naming, and classifying organisms

• Taxonomy

• Classification

• Genetics

• Kingdoms

an aid that is used to identify organisms and that consists of the answers to a series of questions

• Punnett Square

• DNA

• Scientific Method

• Dichotomous Key

prokaryotes that are distinguished from other prokaryotes by differences in their genetics and in the makeup of their cell wall, live in extreme environments.

• Bacteria

• Archaea

• Protists

• Plants

extremely small, single-celled organisms that usually have a cell wall and that usually reproduces asexually by cell division.

• Archaea

• Bacteria

• Plants

• Protists

in a modern taxonomic system, a domain made up of all eukaryotes; this domain has kingdoms Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.

• Classification

• Prokaryote

• Eukarya

• Kingdoms

a kingdom of mostly one-celled eukaryotic organisms that are different from plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi, both autotrophic and heterotrophic and reproduces asexually.

• Domain

• Fungi

• Protist

• Bacteria

a kingdom made up of complex, multicellular organisms that are usually green, have cell walls made of cellulose, autotrophic and reproduces sexually.

• Animals

• Plants

• Protists

• Bacteria

a kingdom made up of complex, multicellular organisms that lack cell walls, heterotrophic, and reproduces sexually.

• Plants

• Animals

• Protists

• Kingdoms

Do not make their own food

• Autotrophic

• Heterotrophic