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Animal Bio
CSU Exam 2
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/09/2012

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By what basis are organisms classified?

 

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Taxonomy 
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Who is the first person to come up with a scientific scheme of classification?
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Carolus Linnaeus 
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What is the binomial system of nomenclature and its characteristics? 
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The way to name a species.  It has two words that are in italics.  The first word is the Capatilized (genus) and the speicies is lowercase.  
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What are the mandatory taxonomic categories? 
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Needs to be placed in seven different taxa. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species 
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