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| Question | Answer |
| What is Classification? | Classification is the process of putting things into groups. |
| What is Weed? | a plant growing where its not wanted |
| What are pest species? | A pest is any living organism which is invasive or prolific (present in large numbers or quantities) |
| Why do scientists classify? | Scientists classify organisms to make them easier to study. |
| What is Taxonomy? | the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics. |
| Who are taxonomists? | A taxonomist is a biologist that groups organisms into categories. |
| What are reptiles? | a cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that includes snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, and tortoises |
| What are Amphibians? | a cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and caecilians. |
| What is an animal? | a living organism which feeds on organic matter. |
| What are Vertebrates? | an animal that has a back bone. |
| What are Invertebrates? | an animal lacking a backbone. |
| What is a mammal? | a warm-blooded vertebrate animal that has possession of hair or fur. females can secrete milk for the nourishment of the young |
| What is a fish? | a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins. |
| What is a dichotomous key? | A dichotomous key is a series of choices that leads to the identification of an object. |
| Which animal is the mammal in this picture? | Kangaroo because it has all the characteristics of a mammal. |
| What is Phylum? | a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom. |
| What is a kingdom? | it is the 1st level of classification. |
| What is an Agnatha? | a group of primitive jawless vertebrates which includes the lampreys, hagfishes, and many fossil fishlike forms. |
| What are Chordates? | Animals with a nerve cord running down their backs,and an endoskeleton. |
| What is an endoskeleton? | A skeleton inside the body |
| What is an exoskeleton? | a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals. |
| What are Poriferans? | an aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Porifera (a sponge). |
| What are Cnidarians? | an aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum with radial symmetry and only one body opening. |
| What are Echinoderms? | a marine invertebrate of the phylum Echinodermata, such as a starfish, sea urchin, or sea cucumber. |
| What are Annelids? | a segmented worm of the phylum Annelida, such as an earthworm or leech. |
| What is Radial Symmetry? | A cut in any direction through the middle will result in identical halves. |
| What is Bilateral Symmetry? | There is only one position where a cut produces identical halves. |
| What are Nematodes? | a worm of the large phylum Nematoda, such as a roundworm or threadworm. |
| What is Molluscs? | an invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses. |
| What are Platyhelminths? | a phylum of invertebrates that comprises the flatworms. |
| What are Arthropods? | an invertebrate animal of the large phylum Arthropoda, such as an insect, spider, or crustacean. |
| What are Chondrichthyes? | a class of fishes that includes those with a cartilaginous skeleton. |
| What are Osteichthyes? | a class of fishes that includes those with a bony skeleton. |
| What are Placentals? | Mammals that nourish the baby inside the mothers body by a placenta and the baby is born at a more mature state. |
| What are Monotremes? | Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs. |
| What are Marsupials? | a mammal of an order whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly. |
| What are cells? | The building blocks of all living things |
| What are Conifers? | Plants that bear their seeds on cones and have male and female cones on the same tree. |
| What are Cycads? | Plants that bear their seeds in cones and have male and female cones on separate plants. |
| What are decomposers? | Decomposers are organisms such as bacteria and fungi that break down the organic matter in the dead bodies of plants and animals. |
| What is Divison? | The level below kingdom in the classification of plants. |
| What are ferns? | Plants that reproduce using spores and have a vascular system for transporting food and water throughout plants. |
| What are flowering plants? | Plants that produce seeds fully protected inside an ovary. |
| What are Flagellum? | A Flagellum is a whip-like structure that allows a cell to move. |
| What is Fungus or Fungi? | multicellular and unicellular organisms with a cell wall as the outer covering and a distinct nucleus. |
| What are Multicellular organisms? | Multicellular organisms are organisms that consist of more than one cell. |
| What are Unicellular organisms? | A unicellular organism, also known as a single-celled organism, is an organism that consists of only one cell |
| What are Ginkgos? | Tree with separate male and female plants. |
| What are Liverworts? | Plants with no vascular tissue that reproduce using spores. |
| What is the meaning of microscopic? | Something that cannot be seen without the help of a microscope. |
| What is Macroscopic? | visible to the naked eye; not microscopic. |
| What is Monera? | One of the 5 kingdoms of living things single-celled organisms without a distinct nucleus. |
| What are Mosses? | Plants with no vascular tissue that reproduce using spores? |
| What is protist? | One of the five kingdoms of living things; single-celled organisms with a distinct nucleus. |
| What are seed-producing plants? | Plants that reproduce using seeds. |
| What are sporangia? | special structures in which spores are produced. |
| What are spores? | Single cells that grow into a new moss plant, fern or fungus. |
| What is Class? | The level under phylum in the classification of living things. |
| What is Family? | The level in classification system below order and above genus? |
| What is Genus? | The level in classification system below family and above species. |
| What is Order? | The level of classification system below class and above family, |
| What is Species? | The last level of classification. |
| Diagram of Class, Family ,Genus ,Order, and Species. |
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