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| organism | any living thing that can carry out life activities on its own |
| kingdom | one of the largest groups used to classify living things; the organisms in the group are large in number but few in characteristics |
| phylum | a main group within a kingdom, whose members share a main characteristic |
| species | a group of similiar organisms in a genus that can reproduce more of their own kind |
| microbe | a living thing so small that it can be seen only with a microscope |
| classification | also known as taxonomy is a system of categorizing living things. there are seven divisions in our scientific classification system. |
| The seven divisions of the scientific classification system | kindgom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
| Aristotle | one of the first scientists to see a need for a classification system; he divided all living things into two kingdoms - plant and animal |
| Carolus Linnaeus | a Swedish scientist who developed a way of naming organisms using their genus and species |
| Alexander Fleming | discovered penicillin |
| taxonomy | the science of classification |
| Plants and Animals | The two kingdoms Aristotle placed all living things |
| Five Kingdoms | Aminals, Plants, Protists, Fungi, and Monera |
| photosynthesis | the process that plants go through to make their own food |
| Plant kingdom | They make their own food and are multicellular |
| Animal kingdom | All have many cells in their bodies. They eat and digest other organisms. Most can move from place to place |
| Fungi kingdom | They cannot make their own food; they absorb it |
| Protist kingdom | They are mostly one-celled and can be seen in pond water under a microscope |
| Fungi kingdom | mold and mildew are examples from this kingdom |
| Penicillin | is made from the Fungi kingdom |
| Monera | the kingdom in which bacteria are found |
| Monera | most do not make their own food but break down or decompose other living or once living things; are one-celled organisms with few cell parts; they do not have a nucleus |
