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Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 36mins
Which scientist made up his last name and is now known as the father of taxonomy?
Robert Whittaker
Aristotle
Carolus Linnaeus
Charles Darwin
What is the naming system we currently use, that uses a 2 part name to name organisms?
Bilateral symmetry
Binomial Nomenclature
Biunicellular Apparatus
Bilateral nomenclature
What scientific name is correct?
Quercus Alba
Quercus alba
quercus Alba
quercus alba
Canis lupus, the scientific name for a wolf, is in which genus?
Canis
lupus
Animalia
Mammalia
Which category of classification has the largest variety of organisms?
genus
phylum
species
kingdom
Carl Linnaeus developed a binomial classification system for living things. Why is this contribution important?
because it created new species for identification
because it created specific scientific names for living things
because it created the taxonomy system as it is known today
because it created common names for species with existing scientific names
What is the order of the taxonomic levels from least specific to most specific?
Domain, Kingdom, Family, Species, Order, Class, Phylum, Genus
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Domain, Species, Order, Kingdom, Family, Genus, Phylum, Class
Species, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom
Where is the alligator and T. rex's common ancestor?
Point A
Point B
Point C
Point D
