PreTest Chapter 3 Answer Key for Test chapter 3 section 1(3.1)
True 1. Mushrooms, mold and yeasts belong in the Kingdom Fungi.
False 2. Beetles and worms belong to the Kingdom Protista Animalia
False 3. Mosses, ferns, and tree are classified in three of the six kingdoms. One
True 4. An organism’s scientific name consists of its genus and species.
False 5. As the levels of classification get smaller, organisms share less characteristics. More
True 6. All protists have eukaryotic cells.
False 7. Organisms belonging to the same family are always able to produce offspring together. Species
9. Organisms classified in the Kingdom Archaebacteria include single-celled organisms called bacteria.
10. The name of the Swedish scientist who developed the system for classifying living this organisms is
Carolus Linnaeus.
11. The science of classifying and identifying living organisms is called taxonomy.
12. The scientific name for a cat is Felis domesticus. Felis is the genus.
13. Complex cells from which some plants and animals are made are called eukaryotic cells by scientists.
14. Organisms belonging to the Kingdom Protista can either be single-celled or multicellular. Some can
even make their own food.
16. Because organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae carry on a process known as photosynthesis,
they are considered to be producers.
17. The 3 questions scientists ask when classifying organisms into one of 6 kingdoms are:
a) Prokaryotic or eukaryotic? b) Single-celled or multicellular? c) Producer or consumer?
18. Organisms are classified because there are more than 10 million species of organisms. This helps put
them in order for easier study or classification.
19. 6 Kingdoms of living things and 1 example of each:
Archaebacteria: blue-green algae
Eubacteria: Strep, Staph, TB (tuberculosis), tetanus
Protista: Euglena, amoeba
Fungi: Mushrooms, yeast, mold
Plantae: any plant- tree, bush
Animalia: sponge, clam, leopard- any animal…
20. Seven taxons, in order of largest to smallest are:
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species