Animal Taxonomy

Planet Earth has Millions of Life forms. Scientist work hard to classify them all. Which characteristic below would be the MOST important feature to consider when classify an new lifeform?

• Its size

• Its shape

• How the organism gets it's food or energy to survive

• Where it lives

Answer explanation

remeber our foldable??

we first ask ourselves, is the organism autotrophic or heterotrophic!

then we can look at other features such as size and traits

Which two taxonomic groups give you the scientific name of an organism?

• Class & Family

• Domain & Kingdom

• The common Name

• Genus & Species

Use the table to determine the scientific name of a rattlesnake written in the proper scientific format.

• Crotalus Viridis

• Crotalus Viridis

• Crotalus viridis

• Crotalus viridis

• Viperidae viridis

Use the table to determine the scientific name of a giant panda written in the proper format

• Ursidae ailuropoda

• Ursidae Ailuropoda

• Ursidae Ailuropoda

• Ursidae ailuropoda

• Ailuropoda melanoleuca

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Use the table to determine the scientific name of an emperor penguin written in the proper scientific format.

• Spheniscidae forsteri

• Aptenodyes forsteri

• Aptenodyes forsteri

• Spheniscidae aptenodyes

Reorder the following taxonomic Categories from least related to most related

• Class

• Order

• Genus

• Family

• Species

Domain, ​ (a)   , Phylum, Class, ​ (b)   , ​ (c)   , Genus, ​ (d)  

• Kingdom

• Order

• Family

• Species

word naming system used to classify organisms

• taxonomy

• classification

• binomial nomenclature

• scientific name

Which of the following levels of classification would have organisms that had the most in common?

• Phylum

• Family

• Order 

• Kingdom

A group of organisms that look alike and can reproduce among themselves is known as a:

• Genus

• Phylum

• Species

• Animal Family