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14 Cards in this Set
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Means to arrange things into groups
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Classify
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The classification system used today places organisms in groups based on what?
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Physical characteristics
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Who invented the classification system?
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Carolus Linnaeus
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What are the 7 basic levels of classification from largest to smallest?
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Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species
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Approximately how many types of organisms live on the earth?
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Almost 2 million
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What is the technical name for the animal kingdome?
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Animalia
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When a person wants to be accurate, what does he use to identify an organism?
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Scientific name
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A scientific name may also be called this because it tells the genus and the species to which the living thing belongs.
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Genus-species name
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Describe the 2 parts of the scientific name.
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The first name is the genus of the organism and the second name is the species of the organism and is not capitalized.
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Which is more accurate, a common name or a scientific name?
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Scientific name
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Which word is not capitalized in a scientific name?
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species
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Who gives an organism its scientific name?
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The first person to publish a description is usually the one who gives the organism its scientific name.
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Groups of reproducing organisms such as maple trees which produce maple trees and mice that reproduce mice.
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Biblical kinds
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God commanded living things to reproduce after their ________.
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Kind
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