Classifying life

All organisms have names that include

• class and order
• order and family
• genus and species

What category of organisms share similar characteristics and can reproduce among themselves?

• family
• class
• genus
• species

Binomial nomenclature makes it easier for scientists to communicate because ...

• everyone speaks latin
• everyone uses the same scientific name
• everyone knows all the animals
• its fun to call organisms by name

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class ...what comes next? 

• genus
• species
• family
• order

The first word in an organism's scientific name is its

• genus
• species
• phylum
• Domain

Binomial means ...

• very small
• multiple
• two names
• organized

This man devised a system to name organisms in the 1700s.

• Thomas Edison
• Copernicus
• Carolus Linnaeus
• Fransico Redi

Grouping things based on similarities is called...

• organization
• taxonomy
• classification
• genus

Who first proposed binomial nomenclature as a way of classifying organisms?

• Carolus Linnaeus
• Carl's Jr.
• Charles Darwin
• Henry Groseclose

The broadest level of classification is the 

• kingdom
• domain
• species
• genus