Classification Flashcards
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classification
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organising the variety of life based on relationships between organisms using differences and similarities in phenotype and genotypes
2
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taxonomy
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the scientific study of classification
3
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phylogenetic
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based on common structures, characteristics and reflecting patterns of evolutionary
4
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molecular phylogeny
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how the study of DNA base sequences can help us understand how closely related a different species are.
5
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5 kingdoms
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animals, plants, fungi, protoctist and prokaryotes
6
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3 domains
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bacteria, archaea and eucarya
bacteria and archaea are prokaryotic and eucarya are eukaryotic.
woese found that archaea are more closely related to eucarya that bacteria