Classification Vocab (F&C)

The variety of life on Earth is called

• Evolution

• Diversity

• Taxonomy

• Organism

Any living system that functions as an individual life form

• Specimen

• Heterotroph

• Organism

• Independent

This is how scientists organize all of Earth's life forms into a hierarchy that begins with Domain and places all organisms into categories based on their similar evolutionary traits.

• Prokaryote

• Classification

• Binomial Nomenclature

• Homologous structures

The distinguishing features of an organism. These are the details of the appearance of an organism.

• Physical Characteristics

• Analogous Structures

• Traits

• Eukaryotes

The broadest level of classification. All organisms fit into 1 of 3 of these, based on their traits.

• Phylum

• Kingdom

• Domain

• Genus

This domain is made up of unicellular prokaryotes often thriving in extreme environmental conditions.

• Domain Fungi

• Domain Bacteria

• Domain Protista

• Domain Archaea

This domain is made up of unicellular prokaryotes that are found in common places, even inside of humans.

• Domain Plantae

• Domain Fungi

• Domain Bacteria

• Domain Archaea

This is the 2nd highest taxonomic level of classification into which organisms are grouped based on similarities into the way they obtain energy, the way they produce, unique cell features, and number of cells.

• Domain

• Phylum

• Species

• Kingdom

A kingdom of eukaryotic, mostly unicellular organisms that are different in the way they obtain energy.

• Kingdom Protista

• Kingdom Fungi

• Kingdom Plantae

• Kingdom Animalia

A kingdom of eukaryotic, mostly multicellular organisms that obtain energy by breaking down substances in their surroundings and absorbing the nutrients. They are known as decomposers due to the way they obtain their energy.

• Kingdom Protista

• Kingdom Eukaryote

• Kingdom Fungi

• Kingdom Scavenger