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Systematics

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Study of the diversity of life and evolutionary relationships

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Binomial nomenclature

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Scientific name

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Taxa

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Classification of an organism

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Kingdom

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Similar phyla

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Phylum

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Group of similar classes

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Class

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Group of similar orders

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Family

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Group of similar genera

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Genus

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Group of similar species

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Phylogeny

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Study of evolutionary relationships

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Clade

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Evolutionary branch of a cladogram that contains a single ancestor and its descendants

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Cladogram

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Diagram depicting shared characteristics

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Monophyletic group

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Group of a single ancestral species that doesn’t include any organisms not descended from that common ancestor

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Derived character

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A trait only found in recent ancestors

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Bacteria

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A group of unicellular prokaryotes that contains peptidoglycan

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Archaea

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A group of unicellular prokaryotes that does not contain peptidoglycan

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Eukarya

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Domain consisting of everything wi a nucleus

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Domain

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Larger than a kingdom

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Order

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Group of similar families

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Species

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Group of individuals that can interbreed

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