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Classification of Organisms Vocabulary

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  • What is a structure?
    The arrangement of parts that form a living thing.
  • What is a category of organisms made up of more than one cell and of different types of cells?
    Multicellular
  • Which kingdom has prokaryotic, single-celled organisms that lack a membrane-enclosed nucleus and can be classified by shape?
    Kingdom Bacteria
  • Which kingdom has prokaryotic, single-celled organisms that live in extreme environments?
    Kingdom Archaea
  • Which kingdom has heterotrophic eukaryotes that reproduce through asexual spores and have cell walls?
    Kingdom Fungi
  • What is the highest level of the taxonomic hierarchy?
    Domain
  • What is an organism made up of one cell called?
    Unicellular
  • Which kingdom has autotrophic eukaryotes that includes all plants?
    Kingdom Plantae
  • What is an autotroph?
    An organism that makes its own food.
  • What is the second-highest level in the taxonomic hierarchy?
    Kingdoms
  • Which type of cell is lacking a nucleus or any other membrane-enclosed organelle?
    Prokaryotic cell
  • What is the process by which organisms produce more of their own kind?
    Reproduction
  • What is the reproductive process that involves one parent and produces offspring identical to the parent?
    Asexual Reproduction
  • Which taxonomic domain has cells that contain a membrane-enclosed nucleus?
    Domain Eukarya
  • What does, "function" mean?
    What something does.
  • What is the branch of science that formally names and classifies organisms by their structure, function, and relationships?
    Taxonomy
  • Which kingdom has heterotrophic eukaryotes that includes all animals?
    Kingdom Animalia
  • Which kingdom has single-celled and simple multiple-celled eukaryotic organisms?
    Kingdom Protista
  • What is the reproductive process involving two parents whose genetic material is combined to produce a new organism different from themselves?
    Sexual reproduction
  • Which taxonomic domain includes prokaryotic, single-celled organisms that lack a membrane-enclosed nucleus and can be classified by shape?
    Domain Bacteria
  • What is a heterotroph?
    An organism that must consume other organisms for energy.
  • Which taxonomic domain consists of a specialized group of unicellular prokaryotes that can live in extreme environments?
    Domain Archaea
  • Which type of cell has a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles?
    Eukaryotic cell
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