Taxonomy Vocab Review

Organism made of only one cell 

• Prokaryotic
• Eukaryotic
• Unicellular
• Multicellular 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Cell with a nucleus, DNA is found in the nucleus of this cell. 

• Prokaryotic 
• Eukaryotic
• Unicellular
• Multicellular 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Cell with no nucleus, DNA floats freely in the cytoplasm. 

• Prokaryotic
• Eukaryotic
• Unicellular 
• Multicellular 

Organism that cannot make its own food

• photosynthetic

• autotroph

• chemeosynthetic

• heterotroph

Organism that can make its own food

• heterotroph
• autotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organism that cannot make its own food. Consumes other organisms. 

• heterotroph
• autotroph 

The largest level of classification that divides organisms as either eukaryotes, eubacteria or achaebacteria

• Domain
• Kingdom
• Phylogeny
• Taxonomy

The science of classifying and naming organisms is ______________.

• evolution
• taxonomy
• grouping
• scientific names

Taxonomic grouping of similar phyla: sorted into Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria.

• kingdom

• species

• domain

• phylum

Which of the following organisms have a membrane bound nucleus and organelles?

• prokaryotes

• eukaryotes

• both prokaryotes and eukaryotes