Unit I Biology Review 2016
1. Autotrophs are organisms that can make their own ______________.
2. Biology is the study of _________________.
3. Which characteristic of life is described as maintaining a constant internal balance?
4. Are members of the Kingdom Fungi heterotrophic or autotrophic?
5. Viruses are not considered living things because they are missing one of the
characteristics of life. Which one is missing?
6. Prokaryotes are different from eukaryotes because they do not contain a
_____________.
7. E. coli is a member of which kingdom?
8. Which scientist developed the system for naming organisms that is still used today?
9. Viruses can reproduce but they require a ________ to do it.
10. Write the following scientific name correctly: ACER RUBRA
11. Name the correct order of the classification system in order from general to specific.
12. Which characteristic of life would include the process of photosynthesis?
13. What is the smallest unit of life that can exist?
14. Sweating in the hot sun is an example of which characteristic of life?
15. Name the 6 kingdoms that living things can be classified into.
16. Which parts of the hierarchy of living things makes up the scientific name.
17. What language are scientific names written in?
18. Which two organisms would be the most related: two animals in the same phylum or
two animals in the same family?
19. Which kingdom of bacteria lives in places like the Dead Sea and deep ocean depths?
20. Which kingdoms contain only prokaryotes?
21. A euglena is a one celled, photosynthetic organism that lives in pond water. Which
kingdom does it belong?
22. In which kingdom would you find an organism that is heterotrophic, eukaryotic, and
has no ability to move?
23. Where is the genetic material found in a virus?
24. The bacteria that live in the digestive tract of a pig would be classified into which
kingdom?
25. Kingdom Animalia is subdivided into phyla Chordata, Mollusca, Anthropoda and
others. What characteristic do the members of Phylum Chordata possess?
26. Taxonomy is the __________________of living things.
27. Which characteristic of life would be described by a teenager growing facial hair?
28. Eukaryotic cells contain the control center of the cell or the _____________.
29. A chart that gives a pair of opposing characteristics and follows a sequence to
identify an organism is called a ___________________.
30. Linnaeus’ system of classification is mostly unchanged except for the addition of a
more general classification above Kingdom. The added category is the
_______________.
31. Which of the following organisms are the most closely related:
Tyto alba
Asio flammeus
Asio Otis
Bubo virginianus
Strix alba
32. Give two reasons that it is important to give all living things scientific names.
33. Kingdoms are divided in phyla, and each phylum is divided into _________________.
34. Poison ivy is also known as Rhus toxicodendron. Its species identifier is
_________________________.
35. Put the following organisms into the proper kingdom:
a. Mushroom
b. Red maple
c. Ameba
d. Zebra
e. Dandelion
f. Yeast
g. Euglena
h. Coral
i. Tapeworm
j. Mold
k. Halobacteria
l. Mushroom
36. List the main characteristics of the Kingdom Protista.
37. Microscopic organisms found in pond water are most likely in the kingdom
_______________.
38. The cell walls of fungi are made of ______________.
39. Plant cell walls are made of _______________.
40. Complete the following table for characteristics of each kingdom:
Kingdom
Organization
Type of Nutrition
Examples
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
41. What is a dichotomous key?
42. How many options are you given for each section of a dichotomous key?
43. Name the following “emojis” use the dichotomous key below.