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| taxonomy | The science of classifying living things. |
| kingdom | One of the five major divisions into which all living things can be classified. |
| phylum | The largest group in the animal kingdom, or a subdivision in the plant kingdom. |
| class | A division of phylum. |
| order | A division of class. |
| family | A division of an order. |
| genus | A division of an family. |
| species | The basic unit of classification, the division of a genus, made of very similar organisms that are able to mate and reproduce offspring of the same type. |
| moneran | A simple organism with no-membrane-bound nuclei or organelles;occurs in single-cell or colonies; examples are bacterium and blue-green bacterium. |
| protest | A memer of the kingdom Protista, most of which are single-celled organisms, with complex cells and membrane-bound nuclei and organelles, that reproduce by cell divions and may make or eat food. |
| fungus | A organism with a membrane-bound numclius and organelles; Most are many-celled. |
| plant | A many-celled organism with cell walls that makes glucose by photosynthesis and can't move voluntarily, |
| animal | Many celled organism consisting of complex cells, having membrane-bound nuclei ad organelles, that can move, eat and usually reproduce sexually. |
| autotroph | This type of organism that makes its own food (is a producer). This type of organism can photosynthesize. |
| heterotroph | This type of organism gets its food from different organisms. |
| eukaryote | A cell that has a nucleus. |
| prokaryote | A simple cell that does not have a nucleus. There is only 1 kingdom that fits this description. |
| Carolus Linnaeus | A Swedish scientist who classified organisms, the system he used to classifiy organisms is stil used today. |
| binomial nomenclature | A scientific system of naming that uses 2 words (an organisms genus & species. |
