Classification of Life

How many Kingdoms are there?

• 3

• 2

• 6

• 7

The science of describing, classifying, and naming living things is called:

• Geology

• Biology

• Taxonomy

• Chemistry

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Who first proposed binomial nomenclature as a way of classifying organisms?

• Carl Linnaeus

• Carl's Jr.

• Charles Darwin

• Henry Groseclose

The more levels of classification that two two organisms share, the...

• less related they are

• the more they have in common

• less likely they live in the same area

• more likely they are to be domesticated (tame)

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Which 2 organisms have the fewest characteristics in common?

• 2 organisms in the same kingdom

• 2 organisms in the same genus

• 2 organisms in the same species

• 2 organisms in the same family

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The scientific name for an organism is made from the:

• class and family name

• genus and species name

• domain and kingdom name

• kingdom and phylum name

Term given to describe the 2 name naming system is:

• dichotmous key

• binomial nomenclature

• 2 scientific names

• binomial key

Organisms are the same ___________ when they can have offspring, then those have more offspring.

• Class

• Family

• Species

• Phylum

the scientific name for cat if Felis domesticus. To which genus does it belong?

• cat

• binomial nomenclature

• felis

• domesticus

Which organism in the table is least closely related to the chimpanzee?

• human

• grey wolf

• tiger snake

• monarch butterfly

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