Taxonomy and Binomial Nomenclature

What would the scientific name of this organism be?

• alligator Mississippiensis

• Crocodila chordata

• Alligator mississippiensis

• Reptilia crocodila

What would the scientific name of this organism be?

• Mammalia carnivora

• Canidae mesomelas

• Canis mesomelas

• Animalia chordata

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Who created the system of Taxonomy?

• Albert Einstein

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

Binomial Nomenclature takes which two taxons to name a species?

• Genus and Kingdom

• Phylum and Class

• Family and class

• Genus and species

An organism identified with binomial nomenclature includes which two taxa?

• class and order

• family and genus

• genus and species

• kingdom and phylum

The first part of a scientific name is an organism's _______________ and the second part is its ________________.

• species, genus

• phylum, order

• class, spices

• genus, species

The system of giving a species a unique name that has two parts (usually in Latin or Greek)

(a)  

• Binomial nomenclature

• Classification

• Taxonomy

• Dichotomous Key

What do we call the groups in which we classify organisms?

• Categories

• Classes

• Sets

• Taxons

Why is the most specific taxonomy category?

• Kingdom

• Domain

• Species

• Order

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Rodentia

Family: Sciuridae

Genus: Ratufa

species: indica

• Indica ratufa

• Ratufa indica

• Chordata Amimalia

• Sciuridea rodenta