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08 - Excercise 4 - Characteristics and Classification

The document discusses a Martian named Marty who brought a car back to Mars thinking it was a life form. It then provides perspectives from Marty defending himself as the car being alive by noting how it moves, feeds, and responds to its environment. It also provides a perspective from the prosecution arguing the car is not alive by noting it can't reproduce and has no cells. The document then classifies different organisms like corn, sharks, whales and monkeys into their scientific taxonomy categories.
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08 - Excercise 4 - Characteristics and Classification

The document discusses a Martian named Marty who brought a car back to Mars thinking it was a life form. It then provides perspectives from Marty defending himself as the car being alive by noting how it moves, feeds, and responds to its environment. It also provides a perspective from the prosecution arguing the car is not alive by noting it can't reproduce and has no cells. The document then classifies different organisms like corn, sharks, whales and monkeys into their scientific taxonomy categories.
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Name: Jermaine Barnett-Weeks Date: 1/2/21

Unit 2 – Characteristics and Classification Exercise 4

The Martian and the Car


Marty Martian was sent to Earth by the
Martian government to find life. While on
Earth, Marty captured a car and brought it
back to Mars. He thought he'd found a good
example of life on Earth. The Martian
government does not believe that the car Marty brought back is alive. Marty
must stand trial for failing to perform his Martian duties.

At the trial, Marty spoke in his defense. "I first saw these life forms rolling
along roads in great numbers. They were giving off thick clouds of poisonous
waste as they moved. They seemed to exhibit herding behavior, as many of the cars moved
in the same direction. They appeared to have a great deal of energy, some of them moved
faster than 60 kilometers per hour. When one of these life forms stopped or slow down, the
others behind it responded. They slowed down and gave off a reddish light from the back,
and sometimes they would make honking noises. I observed that they would stop to feed on
a liquid substance."

Take the part of Marty's defense attorney and make a good case for the car's being alive.
Then be the prosecutor and show that the car is a nonliving thing. List as many reasons as
you can.

Defense Attorney Prosecutor

1. It moves 1. Can’t reproduce

2. Feeds on a liquid substance/Energy 2. No cells


3. Excretes
3. ___________________________________
4. Responded to environment
4. ___________________________________
5. ___________________________________
5. ___________________________________

Classification of Four Organisms


Whale Humpback Spider
Corn Shark Whale Monkey
Kingdom Plantae Animalia Animalia Animalia
Phylum Anthophyta Chordata Chordata Chordata

© Modeling Instruction - AMTA 1 Unit 2 – Classification of Life


Name: Jermaine Barnett-Weeks Date: 1/2/21

Unit 2 – Characteristics and Classification Exercise 4


Class Monocotyledones Chondrichthyes Mammalia Mammalia
Order Commelinales Squaliformes Cetacea Primates
Family Poaceae Rhincodontidae Balaenopteridae Atelidae
Genus Zea Rhincodon Megaptera Ateles
Species Zea mays Rhinacodon Megaptera Ateles
typus novaeangilae paniscus

Figure 2–1

1. Which organism in Figure 2-1 is most distantly related to the others? Why?

Spider monkey and corn are distantly related

2. Which two organisms listed in Figure 2-1 are most closely related to each other?

Humpback whale and spider monkey

3. Which level of taxonomic category shown in Figure 2-1 indicates whether an organism
is a mammal or not?

Class

4. What type of organism is Ateles arachnoids?

Monkey

Classification Compare/Contrast

Create a table that compares the kingdoms of organisms. Be sure to consider all of the
characteristics of life in your comparisons as well as characteristics that distinguish the
groups from one another.

Compare Contrast

© Modeling Instruction - AMTA 2 Unit 2 – Classification of Life

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