Name ______Due Date______
UNIT XI - CLASSIFICATION WS
I. Matching – Match the definition with the correct term. Each term may be used more than one time and eachquestion may
have more than one answer!
______1. Chordata
______2. Group of related orders
______3. The grouping of objects based on similarities
______4. Two-word naming system
______5. Group of related species
______6. Group of related genera
______7. Level in which all members share the greatest number of characteristics
______8. Branch of Biology concerned with grouping & naming of organisms
______9. Group of related families
______10. Scientist that devised classification system
______11. Group of related classes
______12. Level at which organism can interbreed to produce fertile offspring
______13. Levels of classification used for scientific name
______14. Level of classification containing largest number of organisms
______15. Animalia
______16. Broadest classification level
______17. Primate
II. The table below shows the complete classification of several species of animals. Use the table to answer the questions that
follow.
House Cat / Red Fox / Dog / Wolf / Gopher / Fly / HumanAnimalia / Animalia / Animalia / Animalia / Animalia / Animalia / Animalia
Chordata / Chordata / Chordata / Chordata / Chordata / Arthropoda / Chordata
Mammalia / Mammalia / Mammalia / Mammalia / Mammalia / Insecta / Mammalia
Carnivora / Carnivora / Carnivora / Carnivora / Rodentia / Diptera / Primate
Felidae / Canidae / Canidae / Canidae / Geomyidae / Muscidae / Hominidae
Felis
/ Vulpes / Canis / Canis / Thomomys / Musca / Homodomesticus / fulva / familiaris / lupus / bottae / domestica / sapiens
1. Which two animals are the most closely related? Explain. ______
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2. At what level does the classification between house cats and gophers diverge? ______
3. Which organism has the least in common with the others? Explain. ______
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4. Which classification levels are shared by a red fox and a dog? ______
Which classification levels are shared by a red fox and a human? ______
5. Which organisms have more common characteristics, red fox & dog or red fox & human? Explain. ______
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6. What type of animal would you predict Vulpes velox to be? Explain. ______
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7. At what level does the classification between humans and dogs diverge? ______
8. What is the scientific name for a fly? ______
A human? ______
♫ SIX KINGDOMS OF LIFE ♫
Matching – Each choice may be used more than one time.
______1. Prokaryote with cell walls made of peptidoglycanA. Animalia
______2. Composed of all autotrophic eukaryotesB. Archaebacteria
______3. Eukaryotes with cell walls made of chitinC. Eubacteria
______4. YeastsD. Fungi
______5. All unicellular with cell walls that lack peptidoglycanE. Plantae
______6. All members carry out photosynthesisF. Protista
______7. All members are heterotrophs lacking a cell wall
______8. Prokaryotes that live in very extreme, harsh conditions
______9. Mosses & ferns
______10. Eukaryotic heterotrophs that obtain nutrients through absorption
______11. Algae
______12. Cell wall made up of cellulose
______13. Non-motile eukaryotes with organs and organ systems
______14. Eukaryotes that are mostly unicellular, but may be multicellular
______15. Eukaryotic kingdom composed of organisms with or without chloroplasts
______16. Mushrooms
______17. Prokaryotic decomposers
______18. Eukaryotic decomposers
______19. Most complex of all kingdoms
______20. “Junk Drawer of Life”
______21. Ubiquitous prokaryotes
______22. All members have nucleus, mitochondria, chloroplasts, cell wall
______23. Most ancient of kingdoms
______24. Sponges
______25. Heterotrophs with organs and organ systems
______26. E. coli
______27. Domain Bacteria
______28. Paramecium
______29. Morels, truffles, mushrooms
______30. Domain Archaea
______31. Most diverse kingdom