#1 Flashcards
Classification
The act of classifying something by characteristics
Taxonomy
The branch of science that classifies
Binomial Nomenclature
2 terms denoted to classify a species
Taxon
Group of any rank, species, family, or class
Genus
Above species, below family
Family
Contains one or more genera
Order
Between class and family
Class
A rank between phylum and order
Phylum
between kingdom and class, a rank
Division
rank equivalent to phylum
Kingdom
highest rank in classifying
Domain
Largest of all groups
Phylogeny
The branch of biology that deals with polygenesis
Characters
any observable feature
Molecular clock
Measures the evolutionary divergence
Cladistics
classification according to porportional characteristics
Cladogram
a graph that shows what animals have in common
Archaea
organisms that dont have nucleus
Protists
Cannot be classified as anything
Fungus
not animals, plants, or bacteria