Classification

Taxonomy is _________.

• one of three domains of life

• The science of classifying and naming living things

• organisms with spinal cords in the backs

• one of the six kingdoms of life

True or False: An organism's scientific name tells you the family in which the organism belongs.

• True

• False

An organism's scientific name identifies the _________ and the _________ in which the organisms belong.

• Genus, species

• order, genus

• family species

• class, order

Humans are in the domain ____________.

• Mammalia

• Hominidae

• Animalia

• Eukarya

Animalia is one of ____________ kingdoms of life.

• 8

• 30

• one million

• 6

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2