Classifying Living Things
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- animals with dry, scaly skin
- reptiles
- The smallest group in which to classify living things
- Genus
- Living things that have one cell with a nucleus
- Protists
- In plants with tubes, the tubes do what
- carry water, food, and nutrients to different plant parts
- animals that have moist skin with no scales
- invertebrates
- Living things that have one cell with no nucleus
- Monerans
- All living things belong to one of five groups called a
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Kingdom
- Living things that have many cells and get food from other living things
- Fungi
- insects and spiderlike animals which have no backbones are
- arthropods
- plants that do not have tubes and pass water and nutrients directly from cell to cell
- amphibians
- Within the animal kingdom, there are two main groups. One group, animals that have backbones is called
- Vertebrates
- Vertebrates are divided into several smaller groups. Animals that have hair
- mammals
- the main difference between plants and animals is
- plants make their own food
- plants that have tubes in their roots, stems, and leaves are
- vascular
- The second smallest group in which to classify living things
- Species
- snails and squid are
- mollusks
- The act of grouping things by using a set of rules
- Classification
- animals with no backbones
- invertebrates