“Guided Reading and Study” Teacher Notes for Students/ G.R.S Notes
Chapter 2.2, “Classifying Organisms”
(Reference pp. 42-48)
Directions to student: Use the answers/ responses below to make ‘cross-references’ to the work you did
for homework/classwork. Make sure you have the correct editions for each item below and study all the
questions and possible CORRECT responses from your worksheets, and your newly edited responses.
(Note: If your responses ARE CORRECT, place a check-mark or a star near your answer!  If your
response is NOT CORRECT, place a line through your incorrect response and record the right answer
above, or near, the space given for the response.)
Use Target Reading Skills
Below are possible questions and answers include:
Why do scientists classify? = Scientists classify because they want to organize living things into
groups so they are easier to study.).
What system did Linnaeus use to name organisms? = He used a system called binomial
nomenclature.
What are the levels of classification? = Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus,
species
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1. Classification
2. Biologists organize living things into groups so that the organisms are easier to
study.
3. Taxonomy
4. True
5. True
6. Binomial nomenclature
7. True
8. Genus: Felis; species: con-color
9. a,b,d
10. Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
11. True
12. It belongs to the order Strigiformes.
13. a.) Bacteria; b.) Archaea; c.) Eukarya
14. Types of cell; ability to make food; number of cells in their bodies
15. a,b
16. nucleus
17. false
18. scientists think that the harsh condition s in which archaea live are similar to those
of ancient Earth.
19. True
20. Protists are eukaryotes – their cells contain nuclei/
21. True
22. a,d
23. Autotrophs
24. False
25. b,c
26. true