Vocab crossword
Across
- 2. The establishment of a hierarchical system of categories on the basis of presumed natural relationships among organisms
- 4. He process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar
- 6. The Archaea, the Bacteria, and the Eucarya
- 9. Composed of more than one cell, with groups of cells differentiating to take on specialized functions
- 10. A bacterium found mainly in the intestines of vertebrates and in the soil
- 12. Made up of only one cell that carries out all of the functions needed by the organism
- 13. The study of evolutionary relationships among biological entities
- 17. One that evolved in the lineage leading up to a clade and that sets members of that clade apart from other individuals
- 19. Eukaryotic organisms
- 20. A specific characteristic of an organism.
- 21. The science of naming, describing and classifying organisms
Down
- 1. An evolutionary tree that diagrams the ancestral relationships among organisms
- 3. A binomial system of naming a species
- 5. Primarily microscopic and unicellular, or made up of a single cell
- 7. Unicellular microorganisms in the domain Archaea
- 8. A taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission
- 11. The domain comprised of eukaryotes or organisms whose cells contain a true nucleus
- 14. Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria.
- 15. An organism that consumes other organisms in a food chain
- 16. A major category of living organisms, or a group of genetically related language families
- 18. A Swedish botanist who created the current system for classifying plants and animals