SMSH-PROJECTS-CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+

Mammals - Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, including humans. Characteristics of mammals - •Are vertebrates (which means they have a backbone or spine). •Are endothermic. Also known as "warm-blooded," endothermic animals regulate their own body temperate which allows them to live in almost every climate on Earth. •Have hair on their bodies. •Produce milk to feed their babies. Classification of organisms is based on - - Information about physical features and activities How is the classification system arranged? - In a hierarchy of increasing specificity. What are the accepted hierarchical levels of classification from most general to most specific? - Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species. How can one remember the levels of organization? - Do kings play chess on Fridays generally Saturdays Do - Domain Kings - Kingdom Play - Phylum chess - Class on - Order Fridays - Family generally - GenusSaturdays- species A common classification system to which most organisms belong to. Developed by Linnaeus - Binomial System Current classification systems now generally recognize the categorization of organisms into ______ domains - 3 What are the names of the different Domains? - Domain Archaea, Domain Bacteria, and Domain Eukarya Domains are further subdivided into ___ - Kingdoms The domains are divided into how many kingdoms? - a total of 6 kingdoms Domain Archaea has 1 kingdom Domain Bacteria has 1 kingdom Domain Eukarya has 4 kingdoms What are the Kingdom(s) in Domain Archaea? - Kingdom Archaebacteria. What are the Kingdom(s) in Domain Bacteria? - Kingdom Eubacteria Until recently Kingdom Eubacteria and Kingdom Archaebacteria were considered the ______ _______. - Monera Kingdom What are the Kingdom(s) in Domain Eukarya? - Kingdom Protista, Kingdom Fungi, Kingdom Plantae, Kingdom Animalia. What Kingdom does the Plant belong to? - Plantae.What Kingdom does the Common Animal Belong to? - Animalia The largest kingdom is the - Animalia kingdom The second largest kingdom is the - Plantae kingdom