Vocabulary Quiz for Classification

The process of grouping organisms into categories based upon shared characteristics or traits

• Taxonomy
• Classification
• Grouping
• Categorizing

The science of classifying plants and animals

• Classification
• Categorizing
• Taxonomy
• Plant knowledge

A tool that allows you to identify items in the natural world.

• Classification Key
• Dichotomous Key
• Answer key
• Binomial Nomenclature

two word system to name species, first word identifies the genus and the second identifies the species

• Binomial Nomenclature
• Answer Key
• Dichotomous Key
• Classification Key

The father of Taxonomy

• Charlie Brown
• Carl Linnaeus
• Bugs Bunny
• Charles Darwin

These reproduce asexually and are eukaryotes

• Plants
• Animals
• Sharks
• Bugs

These reproduce sexually and are eukaryotes

• Plants
• Animals
• Fungi
• Bacteria

Made up of many cells

• Unicellular
• Cars
• Multicellular
• Nucleus

a species in which the number of individuals falls so low that extinction is possible.

• Extinct
• Low numbers
• Unbothered
• Endangered Species

the process through which a cell splits into two parts in where each part receives one copy of the DNA

• Binary Fission
• Cells
• Splits
• DNA division