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| Discipline of classifying 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, 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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| Largest taxonomic group, consisting of closely related phyla. |
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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 inclusive taxonomic category; larger than a Kindgom. |
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| Domain of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls containing peptidoglycans. |
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| Kingdom of unicellular prokaryotes whose cell walls are made up of peptidoglycan. |
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| Domain of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls that do not contain peptidogylcan. |
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| Kingdom of unicellular prokaryotes whose cell walls do not contain peptidoglycan. |
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Domain of all organisms whose cells have nuceli, including protists, plants, fungi, and animals. |
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| Kingdom composed of eukaryotes that are not classified as plants, animals, or fungus. |
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| Kingdom composed of heterotrophs; many obtain energy and nutrients from dead organic matter. |
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| Kingdom of multicellular photosynthetic 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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