Biology Questions and Answers

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Biology Questions and Answers


Life Kingdoms



  1. What is the Biology field
    that studies the classification
    of living beings?


The Biology ficlassification of living eld that studies thbeings is callede (^)
Taxonomy.



  1. Into which categories are
    living beings classified?


Living broader to the more particular categobeings are classified, from the (^) ry,
into kingdom, phylum, class, order,
family, gcan be used as menus and species (KPCOFGSnemonic). Kingdom is (^)
the broadest category and the others in
sequence are encomprevious one. passed by the



  1. What is meant by binomial
    nomenclature and what are its
    basic rules?


Scientific nmust have, at lomenclature oeast, two names: of a speciesne (^)
that classifiesthat identifies it as species. T it as genus and the otherhe name
related to genus is the first and must
begin in uppercase, thnames must be written in e other followinglowercase.
Besides this rule, scientific names of
species must stand oeither in italics or underlined or stillut and be written
bolded or between quotation marks.
For example, the scientific name of the
human species is "Homindicating that it belongs to tho sapiee genusns", (^)
Homo.
Scientific nimportant beomenclature ocause it universalizes thf species is (^) e
way to easier for people of different languagesrefer to a species making it (^)
and cultures to understand each other.
Same species tnames in different regions of the planethat have very different (^)
can be identified easily by their scientific
binomial name.



  1. What are the five kingdoms
    into which living beings are
    divided? Which group of living
    being is out of this
    classification?
    The five kingdoms of living beings are
    the kingdom MoProtista, the kingdom Fungi, thnera, the kingdome
    kingdom Plantae and the kingdom
    Animalia.
    Viruses are out of this classification and
    sometimestheir own kingdom, they are said the kingdom Virto belong tous.

  2. According to cellular
    organization how are living
    beings divided into two
    groups?


Cellular bgroups: the prokaryotes, ueings are divided into twonicellular (^)
beings whose sole cell does not have a
delimited nucleus, and eukaryotes, uni
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