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Chapter 22: Phylogeny And The Tree Of Life Flashcards

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Phylogeny

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The study of evolutionary relationships between organisms

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Systematics

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a discipline focused on classifying organisms and determining the evolutionary relationships between them

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The two subsections of Systematics

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Taxonomy and Phylogeny

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Taxonomy

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describing and naming organisms

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Who created binomial nomenclature?

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Linnaeus

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Binomial nomenclature

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system of naming species established by Lannaeus (1758)

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Dichotomous Key

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yes/no system using characteristics to ID an organism

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