Classification Flashcards
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What is taxonomy?
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A system if organization, categories are called taxa
1
Q
Who grouped species together by their looks in large groups called genera?
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Carolina Linnaeus
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List order of taxonomy
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Kingdoms, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
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Rules of binomial nomenclature
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- every genus and species name must be unique
- genus name capitalized, species in lower case (and in italics or underlined)
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Modern classification
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Another term for cladistics
5
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Define a clade
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A group of a common ancestor and all of it’s descendants
