Classification

Question 1

What is a kingdom

Answer 1

division of living things in the classification system

Question 2

What is a domain

Answer 2

there are 3 domain systems of classification that divides living organisms into 3 groups

Question 3

what are the 3 domains

Answer 3

• Bacteria (true bacteria)
• Archaea (primitive bacteria living in extreme conditions)
• Eukaryota (animals, plants, fungi, protists)

Question 4

Who came up with the Linnaean classification system

Answer 4

Carl Linnaeus

Question 5

What is the Linnaean classification system

Answer 5

• 3 large groups called kingdoms called kingdoms (plants, animals, and minerals (later removed))
• sorted by phenotypes

Question 6

What is classification

Answer 6

the process of sorting organisms into groups based on their characteristics

Question 7

Describe the order of different classification groupings and how to remember them

Answer 7

Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

King Phillip Came Over For Good Soup

Question 8

Which group has the largest and smallest no. species within

Answer 8

Kingdom ~ most
Species ~ least

Question 9

Linnaeus came up with what naming system? What is it?

Answer 9

Binomial

2 parts
- Genus + Species
(1st letter capital + lowercase)
- both in italics or underlined

Question 10

what is the 3-domain system

Answer 10

• from Carl Woese (a microbiologist)
• microscopy and gene sequencing refined classification
• when there’s fewer differences between gene sequences, the closer the relation
• introduced Domains (archaea, bacteria, eukarya)

Question 11

What does an evolutionary tree show

Answer 11

relationship between species