Biodiversity and Classification

How do you define 'biodiversity'?

• Biology

• Living Organisms

• Variety of living organism

• Interaction between living and non-living organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Biodiversity is valuable to humans in that

• people buy and sell living things in the pet trade and for esthetic reasons.

• living things depend on people for food, clothing, energy, medicine, and shelter.

• people depend on other living things for food, clothing, energy, medicine, and shelter.

• we have been taught at the earliest age that diversity is a good word so we use it in all endeavours.

What is taxonomy?

• Science of conserving biodiversity.

• Science of comparing macro molecules.

• Science of naming, describing and classifying organisms

• Science of creating new species.

Which statements are true about taxonomic hierarchy

• The broadest taxon is phylum

• Order is a taxon within a class and it consists of several families

• Different organisms within a class are from the same family

• Different organisms within an order may belong to different classes

Choose the correct order

• Genus > Species > Order > Class > Family > Phylum > Kingdom > Domain

• Kingdom > Domain > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Genus > Species

• Kingdom > Domain > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Species > Genus

• Domain > Kingdom > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Genus > Species

Species with closely related in the family are placed in the same ____________.

• Genus

• Family

• Species

• Order

What scientist gave us the system of classification we still use today?

• Mendel

• Linnaeus

• Darwin

• Watson

The three domains are:

• Plant, Animal, Bacteria

• Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya

• Invertebrates, Vertebrates, Plants

• Fungi, Animal, Plant

Term given to describe the 2 name naming system is:

• Dichotomous Key

• Binomial nomenclature

• binomial key

• 2 scientific names

Nomenclature is a method used to…

• Give scientific name to organisms

• Identify homologous structures

• Give in situ protection for organisms

• Promote speciation process