Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary - Statistics

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Hint	First Letter	Answer	% Correct
The fourth highest major rank in the classification of organisms.	C	Class	91%
A kingdom consisting of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms that with few exceptions consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have myocytes and are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells during embryonic development, e.g., Homo sapiens.	A	Animalia	90%
The second highest major rank in the classification of organisms.	K	Kingdom	86%
The third highest major rank in the classification of organisms.	P	Phylum	86%
The eighth and lowest (most specific) major rank in the classification of organisms.	S	Species	86%
A domain of mostly single-celled free-living organisms that lack cell nuclei, and that have a cell membrane that uses ester linked lipids and a cell wall containing peptidoglycan, e.g. Escherichia coli.	B	Bacteria	85%
The fifth highest major rank in the classification of organisms.	O	Order	85%
The sixth highest major rank in the classification of organisms.	F	Family	84%
Since 1990, the highest (least specific) major rank in the classification of organisms.	D	Domain	81%
The seventh highest major rank in the classification of organisms.	G	Genus	81%
A kingdom of organisms that have chitin in their cell walls and acquire food by absorbing dissolved molecules; and whose means of mobility are growth and spores, e.g., Penicillium camemberti.	F	Fungi	79%
The kingdom containing photosynthetic organisms (and a small number of parasitic organisms that have lost the genes for photosynthesis and chlorophyll).	P	Plantae	79%
The class to which Homo sapiens belongs.	M	Mammalia	76%
Order to which Homo sapiens belongs.	P	Primates	71%
An organism whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus.	E	Eukaryote	69%
The phylum to which Homo sapiens belongs.	C	Chordata	65%
A single-cell organism whose cell lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.	P	Prokaryote	64%
A minor taxonomic rank used to classify populations of a species that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics, but that can successfully interbreed, even if some male offspring are sterile.	S	Subspecies	58%
A formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms.	B	{Binomial} nomenclature	55%
A domain of single-celled organisms that lack cell nuclei and that have a cell membrane that uses ether linked lipids.	A	Archaea	50%
Swedish botanist (1707-1778) who formalized the modern system of naming organisms, and who is known as “the father of modern taxonomy.”	L	Carl {Linnaeus}	47%
The process of the formation of a new species, e.g., via evolution.	S	Speciation	43%
A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit, and usually given a name that is assigned a taxonomic rank.	T	Taxon	42%
A grouping of organisms that includes a common ancestor and all the descendants (living and extinct) of that ancestor.	C	Clade	41%
An important scientific tool used to identify different organisms based on the organism's observable traits, and consisting of a series of statements with two choices in each step that will lead users to the correct identification.	D	{Dichotomous} key	15%

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