GCSE Biology – Classification

Last updated: 30/04/2020
AQA GCSE Science – Combined science higher Inheritance, variation and evolution GCSE Biology – Classification

Learning Objectives

-I can describe the system of classification that Linnaeus developed
-I can determine an organism’s genus and species from a tree
-I can describe how developments in biology can impact on classification
-I can describe the ‘three-domain system’ of archaea, bacteria and eukaryote

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  1. Who made the traditional classification system?

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  2. Why do we use the standardised naming system?

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  3. What is the most general classification under the Linneaus system?

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  4. Which two kingdoms did Linneaus first propose?

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  5. What is the correct order for the Linneaus system?

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  6. What comes after Kingdom in the Linneaus system?

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  7. What comes after Phylum in the Linneaus system?

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  8. What comes after genus in the Linneaus system?

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  9. What comes after class in the Linneaus system?

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  10. What comes after family in the Linneaus system?

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  11. What data do evolutionary trees use for living organisms?

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  12. Give an example of a biological kingdom

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  13. Give an example of a biological class

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  14. Give an example of a biological species

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  15. What are evolutionary trees?

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  16. What data do evolutionary trees use for extinct organisms?

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  17. What level of classification is Homo?

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  18. What level of classification is sapiens?

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  19. What language are all organism names in?

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  20. How are individual organisms named?

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  21. How do we write the binomial name?

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  22. What does the binomial system involve?

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  23. Which countries uses the binomial system?

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  24. What are members of the same species like?

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  25. What has led to the new model of classification?

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