{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/bio-classification",
 "id": "bio-classification",
 "title": "Classification of Life",
 "category": "science",
 "subject": "Biology",
 "levels": [
  "6-8",
  "9-12",
  "college"
 ],
 "description": "Taxonomy ranks, kingdoms, domains and naming.",
 "tags": [
  "classification",
  "taxonomy"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Term",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Taxonomy",
   "The science of naming and classifying living things"
  ],
  [
   "Who created the system of naming species with two names?",
   "Carl Linnaeus"
  ],
  [
   "Binomial nomenclature",
   "Naming each species with a two-part Latin name"
  ],
  [
   "Genus",
   "The first part of a scientific name, capitalized"
  ],
  [
   "Species",
   "The second part of a scientific name, lowercase; a group that can breed together"
  ],
  [
   "Scientific name of humans",
   "Homo sapiens"
  ],
  [
   "Scientific name of the domestic dog",
   "Canis familiaris"
  ],
  [
   "Scientific name of the house cat",
   "Felis catus"
  ],
  [
   "Taxonomic ranks from biggest to smallest",
   "Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species"
  ],
  [
   "Memory trick for ranks",
   "Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup"
  ],
  [
   "How many domains of life are there?",
   "Three: Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya"
  ],
  [
   "Domain Bacteria",
   "Single-celled organisms without a nucleus, common everywhere"
  ],
  [
   "Domain Archaea",
   "Single-celled organisms without a nucleus, often in extreme places"
  ],
  [
   "Domain Eukarya",
   "Organisms whose cells have a nucleus"
  ],
  [
   "Kingdom Animalia",
   "Multicellular organisms that eat food and can move"
  ],
  [
   "Kingdom Plantae",
   "Multicellular organisms that make food by photosynthesis"
  ],
  [
   "Kingdom Fungi",
   "Organisms that absorb food from their surroundings, like mushrooms"
  ],
  [
   "Kingdom Protista",
   "Mostly single-celled eukaryotes, like amoebas and algae"
  ],
  [
   "Phylum Chordata",
   "Animals with a backbone or notochord"
  ],
  [
   "Phylum Arthropoda",
   "Animals with jointed legs and an exoskeleton"
  ],
  [
   "Phylum Mollusca",
   "Soft-bodied animals, often with shells, like snails and clams"
  ],
  [
   "Phylum Annelida",
   "Segmented worms like earthworms"
  ],
  [
   "Phylum Cnidaria",
   "Animals with stinging cells like jellyfish and corals"
  ],
  [
   "Phylum Echinodermata",
   "Spiny-skinned animals like sea stars"
  ],
  [
   "Phylum Porifera",
   "Sponges"
  ],
  [
   "Phylum Platyhelminthes",
   "Flatworms"
  ],
  [
   "Class Mammalia",
   "Animals with hair that feed milk to their young"
  ],
  [
   "Class Aves",
   "Birds"
  ],
  [
   "Class Reptilia",
   "Reptiles"
  ],
  [
   "Class Amphibia",
   "Amphibians"
  ],
  [
   "Class Insecta",
   "Insects"
  ],
  [
   "Class Arachnida",
   "Spiders, scorpions and ticks"
  ],
  [
   "Vertebrate",
   "An animal with a backbone"
  ],
  [
   "Invertebrate",
   "An animal without a backbone"
  ],
  [
   "Dichotomous key",
   "A tool that identifies organisms with a series of two-choice questions"
  ],
  [
   "Cladogram",
   "A branching diagram showing evolutionary relationships"
  ],
  [
   "Phylogeny",
   "The evolutionary history of a group of organisms"
  ],
  [
   "Autotroph",
   "An organism that makes its own food"
  ],
  [
   "Heterotroph",
   "An organism that gets food from other organisms"
  ],
  [
   "Prokaryote",
   "A cell with no nucleus"
  ],
  [
   "Eukaryote",
   "A cell with a nucleus"
  ],
  [
   "Homologous structures",
   "Body parts with a shared origin but different jobs, like a bat wing and human arm"
  ],
  [
   "Analogous structures",
   "Parts with similar jobs but different origins, like bird and insect wings"
  ],
  [
   "Vestigial structure",
   "A body part that has lost most of its original use"
  ],
  [
   "Species definition",
   "A group that can breed and make fertile offspring"
  ],
  [
   "Hybrid example: mule",
   "Offspring of a horse and a donkey, usually sterile"
  ],
  [
   "Warm-blooded (endotherm)",
   "Keeps a steady body temperature using its own heat"
  ],
  [
   "Cold-blooded (ectotherm)",
   "Body temperature depends on the surroundings"
  ],
  [
   "Monotreme",
   "An egg-laying mammal, like the platypus"
  ],
  [
   "Marsupial",
   "A mammal whose young develop mostly in a pouch, like a kangaroo"
  ],
  [
   "Placental mammal",
   "A mammal whose young develop inside the mother before birth"
  ],
  [
   "Angiosperm",
   "A flowering plant"
  ],
  [
   "Mycology",
   "The study of fungi"
  ],
  [
   "Botany",
   "The study of plants"
  ],
  [
   "Zoology",
   "The study of animals"
  ],
  [
   "Microbiology",
   "The study of microscopic organisms"
  ],
  [
   "Entomology",
   "The study of insects"
  ],
  [
   "Ornithology",
   "The study of birds"
  ],
  [
   "Herpetology",
   "The study of reptiles and amphibians"
  ],
  [
   "Ichthyology",
   "The study of fish"
  ],
  [
   "Mammalogy",
   "The study of mammals"
  ]
 ]
}