How Scientists Classify Today: Homework

Sort new organisms into kingdoms with the four questions, and put the seven levels in order.

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Part A — Key Words / 4

Type the word that fits each clue.

1.
A bacterium's cell has no organized nucleus. What is a cell like that called?Answer
2.
A cell has a true nucleus and parts wrapped in a membrane. What is it called?Answer
3.
What is the level just below kingdom called?Answer
4.
What does the book call an organism's evolutionary history?Answer

Short answers. Think about why.

1.
Two species look exactly alike. What can separate them?Answer
2.
An organism gets its food from dead things, can't make its own and doesn't move. Which kingdom fits?Answer
3.
Many books today count six kingdoms by splitting one group in two. Which group?Answer
4.
Which level comes right after phylum?Answer
5.
Which holds fewer organisms, an order or a family?Answer

Three new organisms, and a few levels.

1.
Organism X has many cells and a nucleus. It makes its own food and doesn't move. Which kingdom?Answer
2.
Organism Y is one cell with no organized nucleus. Which kingdom?Answer
3.
Organism W has many cells and a nucleus. It moves and eats other animals. Which kingdom?Answer
4.
Two animals share a genus. Two others share only an order. By the book's reading, which pair is the closer relatives?Answer
5.
Put the last two levels in order, from the bigger group to the smaller. Type both.Answer

Answer each one in one sentence. You mark these yourself against the key.

1.
How is a music store like the seven levels?Answer
2.
Name a living thing you know. Give its kingdom and one trait that put it there.Answer

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Notes

Part A — the answers.

Part B — the answers.

Part C — the answers.

Part D — what a good answer includes.

Answers vary. A good answer says the store narrows from type to artist to title the way the levels narrow from kingdom to species, and each step holds fewer and has more in common.
Answers vary. A good answer names a real organism, a kingdom, and a trait that matches the four questions: a nucleus, one or many cells, makes its own food, or moves.