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Ch. 17 Flashcards

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taxonomy

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a discipline of biology primarily concerned with identifying, naming, and classifying species

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classification

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grouping objects for organisms based on a set of criteria

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binomial nomenclature

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gives each species a name hat had two parts

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taxon

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a named group of organisms

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genus

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a group of species that are closely related and share a common ancestor

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family

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next higher taxon after genus; consisting of similar, related genera

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order

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contains related families

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class

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contains related orders

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phylum/division

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contains related classes

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kingdom

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taxon composed of related phyla/ divisions

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domain

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the broadest of all the taxi & contains one or more kingdoms

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phylogeny

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the evolutionary history of a species

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characters

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inherited features that vary among species

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molecular clock

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model that is used to compare DNA sequences from two different species to estimate how long the species have been evolving since they diverged from a common ancestor

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cladistics

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method that classifies organisms according to the order that they diverged from a common ancestor

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cladogram

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branching diagram that represents the proposed phylogeny/evolutionary history of a species/group

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bacteria

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prokaryotes whose cell walls contain peptidoglycan

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Archie

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more ancient than bacteria & yet more closely related to eukaryote ancestors (domain)

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eukarya

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all organisms with eukaryotic cells (domain)

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protists

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eukaryotic organisms that can be unicellular, colonial, or multicellular

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fungus

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unicellular/multicellular eukaryotes that absorbs nutrients from organic material in its environment

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plantae

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species of plants (kingdom)

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animalia

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species of animals (kingdom)

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dichotomous key

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classification tools

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