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Classification of organisms — tasks with solutions

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Easy

5

Medium

5

Hard

2

Task 1 · easy

Why do we classify organisms?

Give two reasons why biologists classify organisms.

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Task 2 · easy

Species as basic unit

Which classification unit is the basic unit of systematics of organisms?

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Task 3 · medium

Hierarchy of groups

What does it mean that biological classification has a hierarchical structure?

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Task 4 · medium

Characteristics as the basis for classification

Why is the body's color not usually enough to assign it to the kingdom?

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Task 5 · easy

Recognize the bacteria by description

The organism is single cell and his cell doesn't have a cell nucleus. Which school group of kingdoms is best suited to?

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Task 6 · easy

Identify the plant by its characteristics

The multicellular body has cells with cell wall and chloroplasts and conducts photosynthesis. Which kingdom of the school model will you assign him to?

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Task 7 · medium

The fungus is not a plant.

The organism is adulterous, there are no chloroplasts and it can create fragments. Why shouldn't it be classified as plants?

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Task 8 · easy

Animal characteristics

Which set of features fits the animal more: A) multicellular, adulterous, cell without a cell wall; B) self-living, chloroplastic, cell wall?

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Task 9 · medium

Don't guess at one price.

The student sees a single cell organism with a nucleus and immediately finds it to be a bacteria. What mistake does he make?

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Task 10 · medium

Use simple key features

You have two questions: 1) does the cell have a testicle? 2) Does the body have chloroplastics and is self-living? What benefit does such a key have when recognizing?

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Task 11 · hard

Model can be simplified

Why should the school scheme of kingdoms be regarded as a model of ordering rather than a list that science never changes?

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Task 12 · hard

Explain, not just name

The X-organism is multicellular, fornicating, his cells have testicles, and they don't have a cell wall. Assign it to the most fitting kingdom of the school model and give two justifications.

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