Classification of Living Things

A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce is called a(n)

• order.

• phylum.

• kingdom.

• species.

An organism is a(n) ________________________ if it can manufacture its own food.

• autotroph

• heterotroph

• parent

• genus

The scientific study of how things are classified is called

________________________.

• phylum

• genus

• taxonomy

• classification

The first word of an organism’s scientific name indicates the________________________.

• genus

• phylum

• species

• kingdom

Naming system developed by Carolus Linnaeus

• binomial nomenclature

• classification

• taxonomy

• prokaryote

An organism whose cell(s) contain a nucleus.

• eukaryote

• prokaryote

• species

• taxonomy

The one of the two kingdoms that contain only heterotrophs are animals and

• archaea.

• fungi.

• protists.

• bacteria.

An organism whose cell lacks a nucleus.

• eukaryote

• prokaryote

• species

• taxonomy

the level of classification that comes after family and that contains similar species

• genus

• species

• domain

in a taxonomic system, one of the 3 broad groups that all living things fall into

• species

• genus

• domain