Classification Vocabulary

A reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are identical to the parent.

• Asexual Reproduction

• Bacteria

• Archaebacteria

• Sexual Reproduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell and microscopic organisms not visible with the naked eye.

• Dichotomous Key

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Bacteria

• Autotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

A bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement.

• Kingdom

• Eubacteria

• Classification

• Archaea

A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism.

• Asexual reproduction

• Unicellular

• Binary fission

• Sexual Reproduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Prokaryotes that lack a cell nuclei and are a single-celled organisms. They are a major part of Earth's life.

• animalia

• Archaea

• Unicellular

• Heterotroph

Microorganisms that are like bacteria in size and simplicity of structure but radically different in molecular organization.

• Archaebacteria

• fungi

• protista

• eukaryote

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, plant, or fungus. They may contain a single nucleus or many nuclei.

• Prokaryote

• Fungi

• Protista

• Plantae

A taxonomic group that includes land plants and green algae.

• Plantae

• eubacteria

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Fungi

A microscopic single-celled organism that has neither a distinct nucleus with a membrane nor other specialized organelles.

• plantae

• Binary fission

• protista

• Prokaryote

Eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts, and molds, as well as mushrooms.

• animalia

• Fungi

• Eukaryote

• species