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| Grouping, separating & organizing organisms |
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| Classified animals by where they lived; air, water and land |
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| Classified plants by stem type; herbs, shrubs and trees |
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| Father of modern classification; hierarchy of organisms (KPCOFGS) |
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| Largest of all groups of organisms; currently made of 6 categories |
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| Smaller than kingdom, larger than class |
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| Smaller than phylum but larger than order |
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| Smaller than class but larger than family |
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| Smaller than order but larger than genus |
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| First part of scientific name (always capitalized) |
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| Second part of scientific name (always lowercase) |
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| Larger group than kingdom based on DNA and RNA; natural classification scheme |
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| Level between two levels; connected to the level above (i.e. sub-species) |
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| In between level above the level below (i.e. super-phylum) |
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| Two names; applies to Genus and species |
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| Language used in the science of classification; dead, doesn't change, universal |
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| Genus and species of an organism; everyone agrees on this name |
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| Prokaryote, live in extreme conditions, unicellular & have no protein-carbohydrate cell wall; different DNA |
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| Prokaryote, have regular DNA, have protein-carbohydrate cell wall, unicellular |
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| Eukaryote, autotroph, multicellular, carbohydrate cell wal,lsessile |
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| Eukaryote, heterotroph, multicellular, no cell wall, some both asexual and sexual,others just sexual, motile |
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| Eukaryote, heterotroph, some unicellular, most multicellular, sexual and asexual, often decomposers, sessile |
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| Eukaryote, unicellular, motile, all are "like" another group |
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| Nucleus and membrane bound organelles |
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| No nucleus, no membrane bound organelles; very small cells |
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| Organism that makes its own food; producer |
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| Organism that has to get food from elsewhere; consumer |
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| Duplication of parent, no variation, simple mitosis; least expensive reproduction |
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| Requires two parents, variation in offspring, uses meiosis; energy expensive |
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| Not able to move; no locomotion |
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| Organisms, similar to one another, able to reproduce fertile and viable offspring |
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| Group of similar organisms that are not able to interbreed; sometimes same species |
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| When a population moves to a new location |
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| Skill or trait that helps an organism survive |
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| Artificial Classification Scheme |
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| System based on visible trait for classifying |
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| Natural Classification Scheme |
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| System based on biochemistry (DNA, RNA & Protein) for classifying |
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| Series of questions and answers used to identify an organism |
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