Name: Janeya M.

Sapin
Grade & Section: Grade 11-C Perseverance
Taxonomy Worksheet
1. Vocabulary
- distinguish between the terms I each following pairs.
a) taxonomy, binomial nomenclature

Taxonomy is the study of the classification of organism while in binomial nomenclature, an organism is
given a 2- scientific name that give the organism`s genus and species.

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b) kingdom, species

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Species is the basic unit of classification it is used as the specific epithet or the second part of the

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scientific name while Kingdom is the largest and most inclusive among the Linnaean taxa. During

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Linnaeus's time, he only classified only two kingdoms: Animalia and Plantae.

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c) phylum, genus

Phylum is a taxon that includes many different organisms that share important characteristics (e.g
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backbone, with exoskeleton, soft-bodied, or with nervous system) while genus is a taxon that includes
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one or more species with common trait and it is used as the first part of the scientific name.
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3. Why do biologists assign each organism a universally accepted name? Give an example of
this.
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Biologist assign each organism a universally accepted name to provide consistency

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and avoid confusion. Scientists classify because it is an organized way to communicate about
the same organism all over the world example of that is homo sapiens.
4. Name Linneaus’ 7 taxonomic categories from SMALLEST to LARGEST
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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, order, Family, Genus, Species

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5. Explain why each of the following characteristics of a classification system is important.

a) It assign a single, universally accepted name to each organism

To avoid confusion or mistakes

b) It places organism into groups that are biologically related

For common ancestor or phylogeny

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 c) It divides organism into small groups.

Broad to general based on embryology, hereditary info, chromosomes, similarities in

structure fossils.

6. Matching

D 1. binomial a) Linneusdevised a system of naming organisms that is still in use today.

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F 2. taxonomy b) Organisms are placed in taxa , or classification groups.
A 3. Linneaus c) The taxon that is larger than a genus and smaller than an order is a(n)
family .
B 4. taxa d) In binomial nomenclature , an organism is given a 2‐
part scientific name that give the organism’s genus and species.
C 5. family e) The smallest taxon is the species , which is made up of organisms that

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similar characteristics and can breed with one another.

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E 6. species f) The science of naming organisms and putting them into classification .

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Taxonomy.

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7. Complete the following table for atleast 2 organism (that aren’t in the notes!)
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(common name)
Kingdom Animalia Plantae
Phylum Phylum Cnidaria (Chordata) Phylum Mollusca (Mollusca)
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Class Class Amphibia (caecilian) Class Mammalia (grizly bears)

Order Herbivora (horse) Carnivora (snake)
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Family Hominidae (orangutans) Felidae (cats)

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Genus Pan (Chimpanzee) Canis (foxes)

Species Camelus
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8. Name the six Kingdoms and give example of each (try to think of one on your own)
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Kingdom Example
Archeabacteria Methanogens
Eubacteria Actinobacteria
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Protista Amoebae, slime molds

Fungi Mushroom, yeast mold
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Plantae Fortune Plant

Animalia Worms

9. When classifying organisms, orders are grouped together into

a) classes b) phyla c) family d)genera

10. A useful classification system does NOT

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 a) reveal revolutionary trends
b) show relationships
c) change the taxon of an organism based on new evidence
d) use different scientific names for the same organism
11. In the scientific name of an organism, the first part is the:
a) species identifier b) phyla c) genus d) subspecies
12. The species name for lion is:
a) Panthera leo b) panthera leo
c) Panthera leo d) Panthera Leo

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13. Answer the following question in relation to the tree provider.

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1. Which two modern organisms are likely to be most closely related?

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2. What was the most recent common ancestor of organism 2 and 3?

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3. What was the most recent common ancestor of organism 1 and 5?
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14. What characteristic distinguish

a) protists from monerans b) fungi from plants c) plants from animals

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Protists are eukaryotic while Fungi does not possess Kingdom Plantae includes all
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monerans are prokaryotes. chlorophyll while plants do. multicellular plants groups
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while Kingdom Animalia

includes all multicellular
animals groups.
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a) what is the difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic?
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Eukaryotic cells have nucleus while Prokaryotic cell doesn`t have.

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b) Which kingdoms are eukaryotic? Prokaryotic?

The kingdoms that are eukaryotic are Kingdom Plantae, Kingdom Fungi, Kingdom
Animalia, Kingdom Protist while the kingdoms that are prokaryotic cells are Kingdom
Eubacteria and Kingdom Archeabacteria.

16. Explain the difference between the following. Give examples of each kind

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 Heterotrophs and autotrophs
Heterotrophs are the organisms that are not
able to prepare their food, example of that is
mushroom while autotrophs can make their
own like different kind of plants.
Unicellular and multicellular organism
‘Unicellular’ from the word itself uni means
one, so it means it have only one cell. While
‘multicellular’ have multiple cells. Example of
unicellular organism are amoeba, bacteria,
protozoa, etc. while the example of
multicellular organisms are Hibiscus, Hydra
and humans.

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