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The study of classifying living organisms
a) biology
b) biotic factor
c) taxonomy
d) inferring

He disproved spontaneous generation by using maggots on meat.
a) Pasteur
b) Linnaeus
c) Salk
d) Redi

This is a belief that living things are generated from non-living things.
a) spontaneous generation
b) decomposition
c) genus
d) greenhouse effect

The first part of a scientific name is the
a) species
b) class
c) genus
d) order

The second part of the scientific name is the
a) genus
b) species
c) domain
d) order

He disproved spontaneous generation by using bacteria in broth
a) Pasteur
b) Salk
c) Linnaeus
d) Redi

The scientific name of an organism consists of the
a) Domain and class
b) genus and species
c) order and class
d) order and species

Bacteria reproduces by
a) sexual reproduction
b) artificial selection
c) asexual reproduction
d) they do not reproduce

The broadest row of the classification system (top)
a) species
b) class
c) Domain
d) order

The 8 levels of classification from broad to most specific
a) Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
b) Domain, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Species, Genus, Kingdom
c) Domain, Phylum, Species ,Family, Genus, Kingdom, Class, Order
d) greenhouse effect, ice age

He came up with the two-name classification system called binomial nomenclature
a) Salk
b) Linnaeus
c) Redi
d) Darwin

Why do scientists classify organisms
a) to get rich
b) to organize and understand the organisms
c) to spread rumors
d) to get to know each other

A group of similar organisms that can mate and produce a fertile offspring
a) species
b) order
c) class
d) genus

Has only multicellular heterotrophs
a) plants
b) abiotic
c) animals
d) energy

All living things need this to survive
a) energy
b) heat
c) wind
d) two parents

Organisms are organized into domains by
a) Eukaryote/Prokaryote
b) Cells/no cells
c) Human /animal
d) backbone/no backbone

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