Characteristics of Taxonomic Groups

A team of students encounters an unknown organism in a field while conducting a biodiversity study. Some students think the organism is a plant, while others think it is a fungus. Which question should the students investigate to classify the organism correctly?

• Is there a cell wall around the cells of the organism?

• Does the organism perform photosynthesis?

• Is there nervous tissue present in the organism?

• Does the organism reproduce sexually?

Which list correctly identifies characteristics that protists share with animals?

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Five general characteristics of organisms in kingdoms Plantae and Fungi are listed in the box. Which table correctly lists the characteristics of the organisms in the two kingdoms?

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A student wants to use a Venn diagram to show the characteristics of two kingdoms of organisms. The characteristics that the two kingdoms share will be listed in the shaded area where the circles intersect. Which of these is a characteristic that the student should list in the shaded part of the diagram?

• heterotrophic

• mobile

• prokaryotic

• multicellular

The diagram shows taxonomic groups and a major distinguishing characteristic of all but two of them. Which characteristics will be used to complete the chart?

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Characteristics- multicellular, autotrophic, nucleus, reproduce sexually and asexually
This organisms is most likely a member of which kingdom?

• Fungi
• Eubacteria
• Plantae
• Animalia

Characteristics:
Autotrophic
Unicellular
Reproduces asexually
No nucleus present
This organism is most likely a member of which kingdom?

• Protista
• Eubacteria
• Fungi
• Plantae

Characteristics:
Photosynthetic
Reproduces sexually
Made of many cells
Cannot move freely
Nuclei is present in cells

• Plantae
• fungi
• eubacteria
• archaea

Characteristics:
Eukaryotic
Made of many cells
Heterotrophic
Immotile
This organism most likely belongs to which kingdom?

• fungi
• Eubacteria
• Plantae
• Animalia

Characteristics:
Heterotrophic
Unicellular
Cells do not have a nuclei
Reproduces asexually
Immotile
Which kingdom does this organism most likely belong to?

• Plantae
• Protista
• Archaea
• Fungi