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23 Cards in this Set
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What is classification?
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Grouping thing according to similar characteristics
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What were the first two categories that scientists grouped living things into?
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Plant and Animals
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Why were more categories for living things created?
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New species were found that were different from plants and animals
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Who founded the science of taxonomy?
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Carolus Linnaeus
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What is taxonomy?
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The science of describing, naming, and classifying organisms
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What do shared characteristics tell us about organisms?
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How closely related they may be.
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What are branching diagrams, or cladograms?
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Relationships based on shared characteristics
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What is the order of the 7 taxa levels from most general to most specific?
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Killer Pancakes Can only Fight Good Syrup (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, order, Family, Genus, Species)
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What makes a group of organisms the same species?
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Interbreed
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What is the language used for scientific names?
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Latin
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Using binomial nomenclature, where does the first word in the scientific name come from?
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Genus
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Using binomial nomenclature, where does the second word in the scientific name come from?
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Species
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What tool do taxonomists use to classify organisms?
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Dichotomous Key
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Which of the following statements correctly describes the difference between plant cells and animal cells
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Plant cells have chloroplasts but animal cells do not.
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***Why are plants called producers and animals are called consumers?***
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Producer have to make their own food for energy. The animals are called consumers because they have to eat producers or other consumers for energy.
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Which student correctly identified the characteristics that are only specific to animals?
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Student 3
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What are two cell structures that plants have that do not exist in animal cells?
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Cell Wall and Chloroplast
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Based on the differences between plant and animal cells, which cell is most likely from a plant cell?
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A
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Which characteristic describes all members of Kingdom Plantae and some members of Kingdom Protista?
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They contain chloroplasts.
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Which kingdom contains an organism with all of these characteristics?
•is eukaryotic •has a cell wall •is multicellular •depends completely on other organisms to survive |
Fungi
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Scientists have discovered a new organism. It is a single celled organism, and it is eukaryotic. Into which kingdom should this new organism be placed?
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Kingdom Protista
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Which kingdom includes some organisms that have no nucleus and can live in an environment with extremely high salt content?
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Archae- bacteria
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A walking stick is an insect that looks like a twig from a tree. Which two characteristics are best used to classify the walking stick as an animal, and not a plant?
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a consumer, movement
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