| A | B |
| classify | to group ideas, information, or objects, based on similarities |
| taxonomy | science of classifying and naming organisms |
| kingdom | largest of the taxonomic categories |
| lived | Aristotle classified animals according to where they __________ |
| binomial nomenclature | Carolus Linnaeus created a two word naming system called ______________ |
| genus | the first word of an organism's scientific name is the ____________ |
| species | the smallest, most precise classification category |
| chemical | to classify organisms scientists look at their ____________ makeup and ancestors |
| genes | to classify organisms scientists look at similarities in __________ and body structures |
| fossil | to classify organisms scientists study _______________ and the embryo of an organism as it develops |
| phylogeny | the evolutionary history of an organism |
| Monera | bacteria belong to kingdom _______________ |
| nucleus | the presence of a ________________ is one characteristic used to placed organisms into kingdoms |
| Protista | organisms in kingdom ________________ are one or many celled and have eukaryotic cells |
| Fungi | organisms in kingdom ______________ are one or many celled and obtain food from other organisms |
| Plant | organisms in the _____________ kingdom are many celled,don't move, and make their own food |
| Animal | organisms in the ____________ kingdom are eukaryotic, many celled, move, and don't make their own food |
| division | in the plant kingdom _____________ is used in place of phylum |
| classes | each phylum or division is separated into _______________ |
| human | _________________ intrusion into undisturbed areas has in the past led to extinction of particular species |
| dichotomous key | scientists classify organisms using a more detailed list of traits called a ___________________________ |