Miller Chapter 19 Classification

What is the science of organizing, classifying and naming living things.

• taxonomy

• taxadermy

• taxicab

• toxicology

What is the most specific level of classification?

• Family

• Domain

• Species

• Carolus Linnaeus

Molds, yeast, and mushroom belong to kingdom:

• Eubacteria

• Archaebacteria

• Protista

• Fungi

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

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Thomas Jefferson

• Charles Darwin

• Albert Einstein 

The 8 levels of classification, most broad to most specific.

• Domain, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom, Species

• Domain, Species, Kingdom, Genus, Phylum, Family, Class, Order

• Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

• Domain, Kingdom, Species, Phylum, Family, Order, Class, Genus

The science of describing, classifying and naming living things is known as _______.

• Biology

• Taxonomy

• Sortology

• Phylogeny

Binomial nomenclature is the ____________ system for naming organisms.

• Numerical

• Symbolical

• two word

• alphabetical

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

• Geology

• Biology

• Taxonomy

• Chemistry

Biologist group living things based on ____.

• Habitat

• Size

• Colors

• Shared Characteristics

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The proper writing of a scientific name includes ___.

• Genus Capitalized

• Species Lowercase

• Underline or Italics

• All of the above