Biodiversity (2)

He organized living things into three different domains namely Domain Bacteria, Domain Archaea, and Domain Eukarya.

• Carl Woese

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Ernst Haeckel

• Robert Whittaker

The 3 domains used in classifying all living things are Archaea,Bacteria and _________

• Protista

• Eukarya

• Fungi

• Animalia

There are ______ heirarchical categories in classifying organisms

• 6

• 7

• 8

• 9

The 2 names in the two-part( Binomial)Scientific naming system for classifying organisms.In order.

• Domain, Kingdom

• Phylum,Order

• Genus,Species

• Family,Class

There are threats to biodiversity that we should try to stop and solve. All of the following are human activities that endanger the existence of economically important species except________

• overharvesting of resources

• reforestation

• overpopulation

• pollution

All of the following describes an ecosystem with high biodiversity except _________________

• It has high rainfall, thus has lots of plants in them.

• It can provide shelter ,water and food to many species that can survive drought.

• It cannot support interdependence of species causing species that can survive drought.

• It can survive competitions of species.

To what domain does a typical moss belong ________

• Bacteria

• Archaea

• Plantae

• Eukarya

Amoeba, Paramecium and Trypanisoma gambiense are examples of organisms under Kingdom _______

An organism belonging to Kingdom Archaebacteria that lives in salty water.

• Methanobacterium salinarum

• Thermophiles

• Methanogens

• Halophiles

They are spherical-shaped bacteria.

• Spirillum

• Cocci

• Bacilli

• Leptospira interrogans