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| Fungi (heterotroph, multicelluar, eukaryotic) |
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| bacteria (archaebacteria or eubacteria) |
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| characteristic on the side of a cladogram shared by all organisms branching above it |
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| kingdom of difficult-to-classify organisms which could be broken up into several other kingdoms |
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| the shape of an organism (i.e. its appearance, internal and external) |
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| The Seven Levels of Linnaean Taxonomy |
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"King Philip Came Over From Germany Saturday"
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
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| the second word of a scientific name; in Homo sapiens, it's sapiens |
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| the first word in a scientific name; in Canis lupus, it's Canis |
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| kingdom of eukaryotic, multicellular autotrophs (perform photosynthesis) |
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| highest level of biological classification |
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| Lowest level of biological classification |
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| prokaryotes, unicellular, live in hostile environments, such as boiling water, salt water, etc. |
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| Organisms in the same taxons must also share all of the larger taxons; two organisms in the same order must also be in the same Kingdom, phylum, and class. |
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| science of classifying and naming organisms |
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What caiman and parrots have in common but no others |
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Of the lettered positions, the most recent ancestor |
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Of the four marked positions, the oldest common ancestor |
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Feature shared by all of the organisms in the diagram |
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most closely-related to humans |
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