| A | B |
|---|
| Plant Kingdom | vascular and nonvascular |
| Protist Kingdom | protozoa, algae, slime mold |
| Animal Kingdom | largest organisms and largest number of organisms |
| Monera Kingdom | single-celled, 1st organisms on Earth, no nucleus |
| Fungi Kingdom | multi or single-celled, non-motile, eat dead organisms |
| Classification | a system used to organize organisms into groups based on how they are similar |
| Hiearchy | the arrangement of things in a graded series |
| Linnaeus | developed the hiearchy system |
| scientific name | genus and species |
| relatedness/similarities of organisms in a level | increase as the hierarchy moves from kingdom to species level |
| number of organisms in a level | decreases from kingdom level to species level |
| taxonomic key | a series of questions with a choice between two characteristics that leads to the identity of an organism |
| classificztion group made up of related phyla | kingdom |
| classification group made up of related classes | phylum |
| a classification level made up of related orders | class |
| classification level made up of related families | order |
| classification level made up of related genus | family |
| classification level made up of related species | genus |
| a group of organisms that look alike and can reproduce among themselves | species |
