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| Aristotle | Greek philospher whom first designed a classification system for living organisms. |
| Linnaeus | Designed the modern classification system and created binomial nomenclature. |
| prokaryotes | Organisms whos cells do not containa nucleus. |
| eukaryote | Organism whos cells do have a nucleus. |
| autotrophic | An organism that can make its own food. |
| heterotroph | An organism that depends on others for its food. |
| unicellular | Organisms that are made up of only one cell. |
| multicellular | Organism that are made of two or more cells. |
| Photosynthesis | The process by which plants and some monera and protists make their own food from the suns energy. |
| Kingdom | The largest group of the modern classification system. |
| Species | The most specific group of the modern classification system. |
| 5 major groups of classification? | kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. |
| 5 kingdoms | Monera, protists, fungi, plantae, animalia. |
| Archaebacteria | Ancient bacteria that only live in place where there is no oxygen. |
| Eubacteria | Unicellular prokaryotes who can live with or without oxygen. |
| Protists | Unicellular eukaryotes, who are either autotophic or heterotrophic. |
| Fungi | Mostly multicellular heterotrophs, eukaryote, whos cells contain a cell wall. |
| Plantae | Multicellular autotroph, whos cells contain a cell wall. |
| Animalia | Multicellular eukaryote, heterotrophic, no cell wall. |
| Taxonomic key | A classification tool made of a series of opposing statements based on the organisms characteristics. |
