Classification

What can a classification system show about an organism?

• absolute age of an organism
• what an organism is made of
• its relationship to other organisms
• which organisms are the strongest

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

Which domain includes all multicellular plants and animals?

• Archaea
• Eukarya
• Eubacteria
• Protista

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

Panthera leo, the scientific name for a lion, is a member of which species?

• leo

• Animalia

• Panthera

• mammalia

Which taxonomic category is higher than the others?

• class
• genus
• order
• phylum

An organism identified with binomial nomenclature includes which two taxa?

• class and order
• family and genus
• genus and species
• kingdom and phylum

Canis lupus, the scientific name for a wolf, is in which genus?

• Canis

• lupus

• Animalia

• mammalia

Which two organisms are least closely related?

• two organisms from the same kingdom
• two organisms from the same order
• two organisms from the same family
• two organisms from the same genus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which is used to classify and name an organism?

• karyotype
• cladogram
• dichotomous key
• phylogenetic tree

What goal does Taxonomy accomplish?

• explains the differences between living organisms
• classifies living organisms into groups
• predicts the types of undiscovered organisms
• establishes relationships of organisms with their habitat

Which of the following shows the taxa in the correct order?

• kingdom-phylum-order-class-family-genus-species
• kingdom-class-order-family-phylum-genus-species
• kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species
• kingdom-phylum-family-order-class-genus-species