The students quickly realized that the kingdoms of life are more than just categories - they represent the incredible diversity of living organisms that inhabit our planet. From microscopic bacteria to towering trees, from simple single-celled organisms to complex multicellular animals, the students wer...
(redirected fromclassification of living organisms) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia clas·si·fi·ca·tion (klăs′ə-fĭ-kā′shən) n. 1.The act, process, or result of classifying. 2.A category or class. 3.BiologyThe systematic grouping of organisms into categories on the basis of evo...
Aim: How can we classify organisms? Instructional Objectives (students will be able to...) Explain how and why living things are divided into kingdoms. List and describe the five kingdoms of living things. Work cooperatively with peers. National Science Education Content Standards: Unifying ...
The highest classification into which living organisms are grouped, ranking above a phylum. One widely accepted system of classification divides life into five kingdoms: prokaryotes, protists, fungi, plants, and animals. See Table attaxonomy. ...
Taxonomists classify all life on Earth in one of five kingdoms. Members of the the first four kingdoms, Animalia, Plantae, Fungi and Protista, are all eukaryotic organisms. This means the cells of the organism, which can be single celled or multicellular, all have their genetic material conta...
In addition to the Linnaean kingdoms of plants and animals, biologists recognize prokaryotes, protists, and fungi as separate kingdoms. The prokaryotes are the oldest and most abundant group of organisms. They are also the...
The broadest level of life is now a domain. All living things fit into only three domains. Within each of these domains there are kingdoms. Each kingdom contains phyla (singular is phylum), followed by class, order, family, genus, and species. In addition to the Linnaean kingdoms of ...
The Kingdoms The broadest division of organisms has been into kingdoms. Traditionally there were two kingdoms, Animalia and Plantae, but many unicellular and simple multicellular organisms are not easily classified as either plants or animals. In 1866 the zoologist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel proposed a thi...
plant,any organism of the plant kingdom, as opposed to one of theanimalkingdom or of the kingdomsFungi,Protista, orMonerain the five-kingdom system of classification. (A more recent system, suggested by genetic sequencing studies, places plants with animals and some other forms in an overarch...
Linnaeus's original system of classificati on is used today with little modifications D. Modern taconomists have added categorie s and regrouped organisms (3) Which of the following is T RUE about p rotists A. T hey do not share the characteristics of any of the other four kingdoms B. ...