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- Q1Who was the first person to classify organisms?Sir Isaac NewtonCharles DarwinMarie CurieCarolus Linnaeus30s
- Q2Which of the following was not a way Linnaeus classified organisms?landtreeswaterair30s
- Q3What classification did Linnaeus find?cladogrambinomial nomenclatureevolution diagramtaxonomy30s
- Q4Scientists switch to using the binomial nomenclature to help cause less confusion.FalseTrue30s
- Q5What language is the binomial nomenclature written in?Greek and FrenchLatin and ArmenianFrench and ArmenianLatin and Greek30s
- Q6Which of the following is not a way names are chosen for binomial nomenclature?place of discoveryhow may organisms were foundcommemorate a personcharacteristics of organism30s
- Q7Which of the following is not a domain used to classify?bacteriaeubacteriaarchaeaeukarya30s
- Q8What kingdom includes the most abundant organisms on Earth, unicellular and prokaryotic, often causes disease, and are decomposers?BacteriaProtistaFungiEubacteria30s
- Q9What kingdom can be unicellular and prokaryotic and lives in extreme environments where other organisms cannot survive?BacteriaPlantaeArchaebacteriaProtista30s
- Q10What kingdom has autrophic and heterotrophic organisms that are mobile or stationary, either unicellular or colonial, and considered the "junk" kingdom?BacteriaProtistaFungiPlantae30s
- Q11What kingdom contains heterotrophic decomposers that are either unicellular or multicellular and used to be considered the plant kingdom because they appear to have similarities with plants, but they are very different?FungiEubacteriaPlantaeProtista30s
- Q12What kingdom contains autotrophic organisms, are stationary, and range in size from tiny mosses to giant sequoias?ProtistaFungiAnimaliaPlantae30s
- Q13What kingdom contains heterotrophic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms that are able to move with some form of locomotion and have definitive tissues and organs?ProtistaPlantaeAnimaliaFungi30s
- Q14The study of classifying or organizing living things into categories based on common characteristics is calledtaxontaxonomybinomial nomenclaturecladogram30s
- Q15A branching diagram that shows evolutionary relationships is called ataxonomytaxonnodecladogram30s