IGCSE BIOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF LIVING ORGANISMS

IGCSE BIOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF LIVIN
ORGANISMS
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1. what does the Movement
acronym MRS Respiration
GREN stand for? Sensitivity
Growth
Reproduction
Excretion
Nutrition

2. what is the se- Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
quence of classi- ( acronym - king phylum come over for good soup)
fication?

3. what is the se- it is used to organize living organisms specifically.
quence of classi-
fication used for?

4. what is the bino- the system of nomenclature in which two terms are used to
mial nomencla- denote a species of living organism, the first one indicating
ture the genus and the second the specific epithet.

SIMPLE DEFINITION
system of naming plants and animals in which each
species is given a name consisting of two terms of which
the first names the genus and the second the species
itself.

5. what are dichoto- identification keys based on successive questions/ visible
mous keys? features that help classify organisms

6. what are the 5 Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
kingdoms?

7. what is the king- Simplest organisms, prokaryotic cells (no separate nucle-
dom Monera? us) thought to be the first photo synthesizers (bacteria
basically)

8. what is the king- "the junk drawer," organisms that are eukaryotic but are
dom protists? not animals, plants, or fungi

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