Classification RMS

Which plant division is characterized by:

soft, small, green and found on the ground near water

• Mosses

• Ferns

• Conifers

• Flowering Plants

Which category is above the kingdom level?

There are three of these: Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya

• class

• family

• domain

• phylum

This scientistic created binomial nomenclature.

• Francis Crick

• Robert Hooke

• Charles Darwin

• Carl Linnaeus

This Kingdom contains eukaryotic, multicellular, heterotrophs.

• Archaebacteria

• Animals

• Protists

• Eubacteria

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The classification level that falls directly above genus.

• species

• order

• family

• domain

Phylum containing insects, arachnids, and crustaceans.

• Arthropods

• Echinoderms

• Chordates

• Annelids

Kingdom that contains organisms that are eukaryotic, some unicellular and some multicellular, and are all heterotrophs. Examples of this kingdom would be mushrooms.

• Fungus

• Animals

• Protists

• Eubacteria

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The smallest (most specific) level of classification.

• domain

• order

• genus

• species

A series of descriptions arranged in pairs that leads the user to learn the identity of an unknown organism.

• Punnett Square

• Dichotomous Key

• Binomial Nomenclature

• Taxonomy

A system for giving an organism a two-word scientific name that consists of the genus name followed by the species name.

• binomial nomenclature

• dichotomous key

• taxonomy

• domain