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Classification Unit Study Guide
1. What are the characteristics of living things?
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18. What is vascular tissue and what does it do for a plant?
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2. What is taxonomy and who is known as the father of taxonomy?
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3. The process of grouping things based on similarities is called
____________________.
19. The main function of leaves is to carry out the food-making process of
______________________________.
4. The process by which a new organism forms from the joining of an egg cell and a
sperm cell is called _____________.
Fungi Kingdom
20. What kind of environment do fungi need and why?
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21. Bread rises due to the action of fungi called ________.
5. Binomial Nomenclature is a two part naming system made up of the organism’s
_____________ and ______________.
6. In the name Puma Concolor, concolor would be the _________________.
7. Two types of symmetry are _________________ and _______________. Humans
have _______________ symmetry and starfish have ______________ symmetry.
Animal Kingdom
8. ________________ phylum contains animals with a backbone. All other phyla
contain _______________, animals without a backbone. Most animals are
______________________.
9. An animal whose body temperature does not change when the temperature of the
environment changes is called an ________________ and an animal whose body
temperature changes with the environment is called an _______________.
22. Most fungi reproduce by making ________________.
23. The picture to the left belongs to the ______________
kingdom and is commonly called a _________________.
24. Letter A is pointing to the ______________ which
grow into a food source and absorb nutrients.
Protist Kingdom
25. Animal-like protists are commonly called ___________.
26. Plant like protists are commonly called ___________. All plant like protists are
___________________.
27. The third group of protists are called _________________.
10. Birds and _____________ are endotherms. Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fish are
ectotherms.
28. The amoeba is an animal like protist that can move using a __________________
or false foot.
11. What is the benefit of a bird’s nearly hollow bones? _______________________.
12. What are the characteristics of mammals?
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13. Which class of vertebrates is able to obtain oxygen through lungs and its skin?
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14. What are 3 characteristics of arthropods?
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29. The paramecium is an animal like protist that uses _______________to move
which are like little hairs.
30. The plant like protist Euglena uses a ___________________ to move.
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria
31. Archaebacteria and Eubacteria are both _____________________ which
means their cells do not have a nucleus or membrane bound organelles.
15. _________________ are the simplest organisms with a brain.
Plant Kingdom
16. What characteristics do gymnosperms share?
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17. What are the characteristics of angiosperms?
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32. Eubacteria are found ________________________.
33. Archaebacteria are found in __________________ environments.
34. Bacteria usually reproduces asexually through the process of
___________ ____________.