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

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taxonomy

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the scientific study of classification

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phylogenetic

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based on common structures, characteristics and reflecting patterns of evolutionary

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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.

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5 kingdoms

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animals, plants, fungi, protoctist and prokaryotes

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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

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