A | B |
kingdom | first division of 5 categories |
Carl Linnaeus | created the classification system |
plants | move but not place to place, make their own food |
animals | move from place to place must eat other organisms, cannot make their own food |
fungus | move but not place to place – absorb their food - decomposers |
protist | one celled, some can make their own food some have to eat other organisms |
monera | one celled - bacteria only organism in this kingdom |
Binomial Nomenclature | last two categories of classification only one kind of living thing can have this name |
Taxonomy | The science of classifying organisms |
living things | carry out life activities - have characteristics |
non-living things | no cells - no life activities -have properties |
classification order | Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genius, species |
viruses | no organelles, no cytoplasm, no nucleus, no life functions, not living |