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Biology 11
PLO B1: Classification & Taxonomy Worksheet
UNIT 1 LESSON 1-3
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1) Discuss three reasons for classifying "things". You can use
examples in your home and/or examples in your day-to-day life
and/or in the scientific community. (3 marks)
1.We can define them easily if the classify them into categories. i.e
food and stationary.
2.We can only use the category i.e. Food, not so difficult like potato
chips.
3.We can put them in a row to let us to find them easily.
2) a. List the five kingdoms in order of generally accepted
complexity (least complex to most complex). (2.5 marks)
Monera
Protist
Fungi
Plant
Animal

b. Come up with your own acronym for these five kingdoms.

(0.5 marks)

Magic Professor Find Play Astronaut

3) a. List and describe the seven levels of classification starting with
Kingdom and ending with the most specific level. (3.5 marks)
1. Kingdom
Is an extremely large broad category of classification. Is
the highest rank below domain.

2. Phylum
Several classes will be grouped together and placed into a phylum
(pl. Phyla). Although all the organisms may look dramatically
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different they all share some key characteristics.

3. Class -Orders are grouped into classes.
For example all members of the Order Carnivora share
characteristics such as being warm blooded, have body hair and
produce milk for their young.
They are grouped with humans and chimps (Order Primata) into
the Class Mammalia.
4. Order
Families of similar organisms are grouped into Orders and is the
next largest taxon.
5. Family
This is a larger taxon than a genus with animals or plants that are
similar to each other and yet are found in different genera.
6. Genera (Genus)
If two species share many features but are clearly separate
biological units they are classified as different species within the
same genus.
7. Species
The smallest taxon that describes a population that share similar
characteristicsbut most importantly caninterbreed with each
other.
b. Come up with your own acronym for these seven levels. (0.5 marks)
Keith Plan Cut Onion For Great Shrimp
4) a. List and describe the three domains of classification. (3 marks)
The three domains are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya.They
appeared to be prokaryotic and so were considered bacteria and
named "archaebacteria" ('ancient' bacteria). However, it became
obvious from biochemical characteristics and DNA sequence
analysis that there were numerous differences between these
archaebacteria and other bacteria. It was realized that these
archaebacteria were more closely related to the eukaryotes than
to bacteria. Today, these bacteria have been renamed Archaea.

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b. Why is this classification system growing in acceptance by

taxonomists? (1 marks)
In order to classify organisms biologists use the evolutionary history of the

organism. Linnaeus focused on morphology or the phenotype (what the

organism looks like) of an organism when classifying them. The phenotype
is controlled by the genotype . Although there was very little understanding
of genetics or of the mechanism of inheritance during Linnaeus' time, he
was quite accurate in his phylogenetic classification. He devised a nested
hierarchy/taxa of 7 different levels of organization.

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