6TH Grade Vocab 23 Terms/Definitions Practice

Uses a series of paired statements to identify organisms

• Dichotomous key

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Binomial nomenclature

• Taxonomy

Made up of prokaryotes – different from bacteria in their genetics

• fungi

• eukarya

• archaea

• protista

Multicellular organisms that lack cell walls

• protista

• fungi

• plantae

• animalia

A type of branching diagram that shows relationships among species

• taxonomy

• binomial nomenclature

• dichotomous key

• cladogram

The science of describing, classifying, and naming living things

• binomial nomenclature

• taxonomy

• cladogram

• dichotomous key

Things that have all the characteristics of life

• organism

• cell

• genus

• species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

living things that are made of only one cell

• cell

• organism

• unicellular

• multicellular

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Made up of prokaryotes that usually have a cell wall and reproduce by cell division

• bacteria

• archaea

• eukarya

• protista

A group of organisms that are very closely related ex. Puma

• domain

• species

• genus

• organism

Consists of multicellular organisms that have cell walls, mostly made of cellulose

• fungi

• bacteria

• animalia

• plantae