Date:______________
Name:________________
1. There are about ___ _______ known species of living organisms.
2. A classification system brings _____ and _____ to the study of living things.
3. The science of classifying organisms is called ________.
4. A very important reason for classifying organisms is that it provides a logical means for _______ organisms.
5. Scientific names are based upon ________.
6. _________ devised one of the first systems of classifying organisms, classifying them as being either ______ or ________.
7. _______ _______ classified all organisms on the basis of structure.
8. _________ introduced a two-term naming system called ________ ___________ in which each organism is given a two-word _____ name.
9. The first word in the two-name system is a ____ and is the _____ to which the organism belongs.
10. The second name is an _________ and represents its _______.
11. The _____ name is capitalized, the _______ name is not.
12. The scientific name for man is ____ _______.
13. ____ is the genus of man and ______ is our species.
14. ____ is a noun which means ___.
15. _______ is an adjective and means ____ or ________.
16. The _____ is a broader category than the _______.
17. A single _____ may contain many _______.
18. Many cats belong to the genus _____.
19. The scientific name for the cougar is _____ ________.
20. The scientific name for the house cat is _____ __________.
21. Oak trees belong to the genus _________.
22. The scientific name for the red oak is ________ ______.
23. The scientific name for the white oak is ________ _______.
24. When printed both the genus and species are __________.
25. When they are handwritten both genus and species are __________.
26. Biologist classify organisms according to their ____________ beginnings.
27. The word "genus" means _________.
28. Much of Linnaeus' system for classification is still valid today because by classifying organisms according to _________ he was classifying them according to __________ _____________.
29. Before an organism is given a scientific name based upon their genus and species, they must be classified as to: _______, ______, _____, _____ and _______.
30. Each group from kingdom to species becomes more _________.
31. The categories used by biologist to classify organisms are called ____.
32. _______ is the broadest of all taxa.
33. Today there are five kingdoms: ______, _____, ________, _____, and ________.
34. _______ are multicellular, heterotrophic, organismic, which ingest food.
35. ____________ means that an organism cannot make their own food.
36. __________ means capable of carrying on life processes.
37. _______ are autotrophic with chlorophyll which is in a chloroplast, have cell walls made of _________, and are usually multicellular.
38. __________ mean capable of making their own food.
39. ________ are simple eukaryotic organisms such as algae, protozoa, and slime molds.
40. __________ means that its cells have a true nucleus enclosed in a membrane.
41. _____ are plant-like heterotrophic organisms which reproduce by ______.
42. ________ are prokaryotic, usually unicellular organisms such as ________.
43. ___________ organisms have no distinct nucleus.
44. Kingdoms are divided into _____.
45. Examples of phyla are ________, _________ and ________.
46. All _________ at some stage in their life have a stiff dorsal rod of cartilage called a notochord.
47. Our notochord turns into the _________ _____ which houses our _______ ______.
48. _________ have an exoskeleton and jointed legs.
49. Insects are the largest class of ____________.
50. ________ are soft-bodied, mostly marine animals, usually enclosed within a hard shell of calcium carbonate.
51. Examples of mollusks are _______, _____ and _________.
52. Phyla are sometimes divided into ________.
53. Classes are divided into ______.
54. Orders are divided into ________.
55. Families are divided into ______.
56. Genus is divided into _______.
57. Classify man as to:
a. Kingdom_________________
b. phylum__________________
c. subphylum_______________
d. class___________________
e. order___________________
f. family__________________
g. genus___________________
h. species_________________