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| What purpose do scientific names serve? |
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| To circumvent problems with use of common names. |
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| the first word of the binomial designates the group to which the organism belongs. |
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| eash kind of organism within a genus is given a specific epithet. |
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| What is the proper way to write a binomial? |
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| Capitalize genus, lowercase specific epithet. Binomial is written in italics. |
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| What answer do you give when asked what species something is? |
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| the science of classification (categorizing) and nonmenclature (naming). |
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| a system indicating the presumed evolutionary ancestry among organisms. |
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| What are the six kingdoms? |
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| Archeabacteria, Eubacteria, animalia, plantae, fungi, protista |
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| True bacteria, prokaryotic organisms |
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| euglenis, chrysophytes, diatoms, dinoflaellates, slime molds, and protozoans. |
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| a device for identifying an object unknown to you, but that someone else has described. |
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| keys that are based on successive choices between two alternatives. |
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| How can you be sure you keyed your specimen correctly? |
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| scientists compare their tentitive identifications against reference specimens. |
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| what are reference specimens? |
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| preserved organisms that have been identified by an expert taxonomist. |
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| a repository of preserved plants. Includes scientific name of plant, person who collected it, location and date of collection, pertinent information about the habitat in which the plant was found. |
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