Kingdoms Review

How many kingdoms of life do we have today?

• Four

• Five

• Six

• Seven

Which two kingdoms did Aristotle divide all living things into?

• Protists and Fungi

• Bacteria and Archaea

• Plants and Animals

• Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes

Who originally divided all living things into two kingdoms?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Aristotle

• Carl Linnaeus

Which invention was foremost in leading to new discoveries beyond the initial two kingdoms of living things?

• Telescope

• Microscope

• Stethoscope

• Periscope

What area of study has gained a greater understanding due to the advent of the microscope?

• Astronomy

• Geology

• Genetics

• Meteorology

According to the Linnaean taxonomy, which two kingdoms were initially used to classify all living things?

• Plantae and Animalia

• Protista and Fungi

• Eubacteria and Archaeabacteria

• Monera and Protista

What was the kingdom Protista initially made to group together?

• Multicellular organisms

• Photosynthesizing organisms

• Unicellular organisms

• Bacteria

Which new kingdom was created when certain organisms were removed from Protista due to further studies into bacteria?

• Fungi

• Monera

• Eubacteria

• Archaeabacteria

What led to the formation of the kingdoms Archaeabacteria and Eubacteria?

• The discovery that all bacteria are unicellular

• The realization that fungi are not plants

• The emergence of two distinct groups of bacteria

• The separation of multicellular organisms from unicellular ones

Which of the following is a characteristic of all members of the Kingdom Plantae?

• They are unicellular.

• They are heterotrophic.

• They have cellulose in their cell walls.

• They lack cell walls.