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| Discipline of naming organisms and assigning each organism a universally accepted name |
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| Classification system in which each species is assigned a two-part scientific name |
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| Group of closely related species and the first part of the scientific name in binomial nomenclature |
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| Group or level of organization into which organisms are classified |
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| Group of genera that share many characteristics |
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| Group of similar families |
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| Group of closely related classes |
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| Large taxonomic group consisting of closely related phyla |
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| The study of evolutionary relationships among organisms |
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| Evolutionary Classification |
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| Method of grouping organisms together according to their evolutionary history |
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| Characteristic that appears in recent parts of a lineage, but not in its older members |
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| Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms |
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| Model that uses DNA comparisons to estimate the length of time that two species have been evolving independently |
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| Most exclusive taxonomic category, larger than a kingdom |
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| Domain of unicellular prokayotes that have cell walls containing peptidoglycan |
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| Kingdom of unicellular prokaryotes whose cell walls are made up of peptidoglycan |
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| Domain of unicellular prokayotes that have cell walls that do not contain peptidoglycan |
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| Kingdom of unicellular prokaryotes whose cell walls are not made up of peptidoglycan |
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| Domain of all organisms whose cells have nuclei, including protists, plants, fungi, and animals |
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| Kingdom composed of eukartotes that are not classified as plants animals or fungi |
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| Kingdom of multicellular photosynyhetic autotrophs that have cell walls containing cellulose |
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| Kingdom of multicellular eukaryotic heterotrophs whose cells do not have cell walls |
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