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Classification

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  • Q1
    Who was the first person to classify organisms?
    Sir Isaac Newton
    Charles Darwin
    Marie Curie
    Carolus Linnaeus
    30s
  • Q2
    Which of the following was not a way Linnaeus classified organisms?
    land
    trees
    water
    air
    30s
  • Q3
    What classification did Linnaeus find?
    cladogram
    binomial nomenclature
    evolution diagram
    taxonomy
    30s
  • Q4
    Scientists switch to using the binomial nomenclature to help cause less confusion.
    False
    True
    30s
  • Q5
    What language is the binomial nomenclature written in?
    Greek and French
    Latin and Armenian
    French and Armenian
    Latin and Greek
    30s
  • Q6
    Which of the following is not a way names are chosen for binomial nomenclature?
    place of discovery
    how may organisms were found
    commemorate a person
    characteristics of organism
    30s
  • Q7
    Which of the following is not a domain used to classify?
    bacteria
    eubacteria
    archaea
    eukarya
    30s
  • Q8
    What kingdom includes the most abundant organisms on Earth, unicellular and prokaryotic, often causes disease, and are decomposers?
    Bacteria
    Protista
    Fungi
    Eubacteria
    30s
  • Q9
    What kingdom can be unicellular and prokaryotic and lives in extreme environments where other organisms cannot survive?
    Bacteria
    Plantae
    Archaebacteria
    Protista
    30s
  • Q10
    What kingdom has autrophic and heterotrophic organisms that are mobile or stationary, either unicellular or colonial, and considered the "junk" kingdom?
    Bacteria
    Protista
    Fungi
    Plantae
    30s
  • Q11
    What 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?
    Fungi
    Eubacteria
    Plantae
    Protista
    30s
  • Q12
    What kingdom contains autotrophic organisms, are stationary, and range in size from tiny mosses to giant sequoias?
    Protista
    Fungi
    Animalia
    Plantae
    30s
  • Q13
    What kingdom contains heterotrophic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms that are able to move with some form of locomotion and have definitive tissues and organs?
    Protista
    Plantae
    Animalia
    Fungi
    30s
  • Q14
    The study of classifying or organizing living things into categories based on common characteristics is called
    taxon
    taxonomy
    binomial nomenclature
    cladogram
    30s
  • Q15
    A branching diagram that shows evolutionary relationships is called a
    taxonomy
    taxon
    node
    cladogram
    30s

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