Classifying Life

All organisms have names that include

• class and order
• order and family
• genus and species

Which group is made up of organisms that are all from the same kingdom?

• cat, frog, palm tree
• mold, fungi, pear tree
• maple tree, grass, fish
• rose bush, tulip, apple tree

What category of organisms share similar characteristics and can reproduce among themselves?

• family
• class
• genus
• species

Binomial nomenclature makes it easier for scientists to communicate because ...

• everyone speaks latin
• everyone uses the same scientific name
• everyone knows all the animals
• its fun to call organisms by name

A complete scientific name is written in 

• all capital letters
• italics
• all lower case letters
• boldface

Which part of a scientific name is capitalized? 

• specis
• genus
• domain
• Felis

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class ...what comes next? 

• genus
• species
• family
• order

The first word in an organism's scientific name is its

• genus
• species
• phylum
• Domain

Binomial means ...

• very small
• multiple
• two names
• organized

This man devised a system to name organisms in the 1700s.

• Thomas Edison
• Copernicus
• Carolus Linnaeus
• Fransico Redi