Living world bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Each different kind of organism, and the lowest category.

   Item

   Species

2. Clue

   A group of related species sharing more characters.

   Item

   Genus

3. Clue

   A unit of classification standing at one rank.

   Item

   Taxon

4. Clue

   A naming system giving every organism two components.

   Item

   Binomial

5. Clue

   The code of agreed principles for naming plants.

   Item

   ICBN

6. Clue

   The code that animal taxonomists evolved for naming.

   Item

   ICZN

7. Clue

   Study that takes evolutionary relationships into account.

   Item

   Systematics

8. Clue

   The ranked series of steps classification proceeds through.

   Item

   Hierarchy

9. Clue

   Whose name after a species means he first described it.

   Item

   Linnaeus

Instructions

Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation