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| variety of organisms considered at all levels from populations to ecosystems |
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| science of describing, naming, and classifying organisms |
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| any particular group within a taxonomic system |
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| highest taxonomic category which contains a group of similar phyla |
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| broadest category in the taxonomic system that contains kingdoms |
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| the category in the taxonomic system that contains classes and is within a kingdom |
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| category in the taxonomic system within a phylum and containing orders |
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| category in the taxonomic system within a class and containing families |
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category in the taxonomic system within an order and containing genus
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category in the taxonomic system within a family and containing species
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category in the taxonomic system below a genus and above subspecies
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| variations of a species that live in different geographic areas |
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| classifying organisms in terms of their natural relationships |
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| analysis of evolutionary or ancestral relationships among taxa |
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| models the relationships by ancestry between different species |
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| system of phylogenetic analysis that uses shared and derived characters of the only criteria for grouping taxa |
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| feature that all members of a group have in common |
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| feature that evolved only within the group under consideration |
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| taxonomic grouping that includes only a single ancestor and all of its descendants |
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| diagrams based on patterns of shared, derived traits and that shows the evolutionary relationships between groups of organisms |
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| domain made of prokaryotes with a cell wall and that reproduce by cell division |
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| domain of prokaryotes that can live in extreme environments |
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| kingdom of all prokaryotes except archaeabacteria |
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| kingdom of prokaryotes that can live in extreme environments |
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| kingdom of mostly one-celled eukaryotic organisms |
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| kingdom of non-green, eukaryotic organisms that get food by breaking down organic matter and absorbing the nutrients |
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| kingdom of eukaryotic, multi-cellular organisms that have cell walls and go through photosynthesis |
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| kingdom of complex, multicellular organisms without cell walls and that move around |
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| Binomial nomenclature is the process of naming by the ____ and then the _____. |
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List the order of the seven taxa.
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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and species (every taxa should be capitalized except species)
"King Philip came over for gooseberry soup." |
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| Domain Archaea, Domain Bacteria, and Domain Eukarya |
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| Domain Archaea is Kingdom ______ and contains ______ bacteria. |
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| Archaeabacteria; chemosynthetic |
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| Domain Bacteria is Kingdom _____ and contains ______ bacteria. |
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| Eubacteria; disease causing and all other |
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| Domain Eukarya is Kingdoms _____, _____, _____, and _____ and contains all ______ organisms. |
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| Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia; eukaryotic |
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| Who created binomial nomenclature? |
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| What are the two kingdoms Linnaeus put all organisms into? |
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| Kingdom Plantae and Kingdom Animalia |
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| Why are organisms given scientific names? |
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| They are given names so everyone in the world calls organisms by the same name and there is no confusion. |
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| Cladograms show how organisms are related based on _____ and _____ ________. |
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| shared and derived characteristics |
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| Give three examples of shared and derived characteristics. |
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| feathers, hair, scales, etc. |
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| Homologous structures have the same ______, but different _____. |
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| Homologous structures show ______ ________. |
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| The bones in a bat's wing, a human's arm, and a penguin's flipper are the same. What is this an example of? |
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| Analogous structures have the same ____, but different ______. |
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| What do analogous structures not show? |
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| What is an example of analogous structures? |
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| A bird's wing and an insect's wing serve the same purpose but do not have the same structure. |
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