Taxonomy Quiz Answer Key

If 2 organisms reside in the same phylum, which other classification group do they have to share?

A.) Kingdom

What group would contain the largest amount of organisms?

A.) Kingdom

What are the 8 levels of classification in order from smallest to largest?

A.) Species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain

What's the science of classifying and naming living organisms called?

A.) Taxonomy

Which of the following is used to show relationships between various different organisms?

B.) Cladogram

What are organisms in the kingdom Animalia classified as?

B.) Multicellular and heterotrophic

Which of the following kingdoms have unicellular autotrophic organisms?

B.) Protist

Which of the following traits do plants share with animals?

B.) They're both eukaryotic

How many domains exist?

C.) 3

Which of the following kingdoms contain "extremophiles"?

C.) Archaebacteria

What is the name of the scientific classification system?

C.) Binomial nomenclature

What classifications of an organism determine its scientific name?

C.) Genus and species

How many different kingdoms exist?

D.) 6

Who invented the current system of classification?

D.) Linneaus

Canis lupus is the scientific name of a wolf, what's the species name?

D.) Lupus