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| the discipline that scientists classify organisms and assign each organism an universally accepted name |
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| the two word naming system of organisms developed by Linnaeus |
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| a group of closely related species (first part of binomial nomenclature, italic, capitalized) |
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| genera that share many characteristics - a larger category than genus |
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| a taxon composed of similar families |
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| a taxon composed of similar orders |
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| the largest of Linnaeus's taxons |
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| a taxon made up of several classes |
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| the study of descent with modification - evolutionary relationships among organisms |
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| evolutionary classification |
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| the strategy of grouping organisms together based on evolutionary history |
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| characteristics that appear in recent parts of a lineage but not in its older members |
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| a diagram that shows evolutionary relationships among organisms |
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| a model that uses DNA to estimate the length of time that two species have been evolving independently |
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| a taxon level larger than a kingdom - includes Eukarya, BActeria and Archae |
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| a domain of unicellular and prokaryotic organisms - thick cell walls and a cell membrane composed of peptidoglycan autotrophs or heterotrophs |
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| the kingdom under the Domain Bacteria |
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| unicellular and prokaryotic organisms under this domain livein extreme environments - cell walls with no peptidoglycan autotrophs or heterotrophs |
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| unicellular and prokaryotic organisms under this domain livein extreme environments - cell walls with no peptidoglycan autotrophs or heterotrophs |
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| the kingdom under the domain ARchaea |
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| all organisms that have a nucleus - organized into kingdoms: protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia |
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| a kingdom under eukarya that cannot be classified under plants animals or fungi |
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| kingdom under the domain eukarya, feed on dead or decaying organic matter |
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| kingdom under the domain eukarya, multicellular and photosynthetic autotrophs |
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| kingdom under the domain eukarya, multicellular and heterotrophic |
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