Classification

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Classification

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classifying something according to shared qualities

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Taxonomy

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branch of science concerned with classification

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Kingdom

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taxonomic category of the highest rank, grouping together all forms of life having characteristics in common

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Phylum

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primary subdivision of a taxonomic kingdom,

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Class

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taxonomic rank

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order

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below the class, and comprised of families sharing a set of similar nature

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Family

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classified between order and genus

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genus

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groups that are structurally similar or phylogenetically related.

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Species

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fundamental category of taxonomic classification

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Animalia

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Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom

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Chordata

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animals having at least at some stage of development a notochord, dorsally situated central nervous system, and gill clefts

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Mammalia

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warm-blooded higher vertebrates that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands

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Primate

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mammal of the group that includes the lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans.

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Hominid

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known as great apes

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Linnaeus

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created the current system for classifying plants and animals

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Dichotomous Key

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dentity of items in the natural world, such as trees, wildflowers, mammals, reptiles, rocks, and fish

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Domain

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second highest taxonomic rank of organisms in the three-domain system

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Archaebacteria

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single-celled microorganisms

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Bacteria

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prokaryotic microorganisms

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Protista

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eukaryotic organisms that are unicellular and sometimes colonial or less often multicellular

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Fungi

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lack chlorophyll, true roots, stems, and leaves, and reproduce by means of spores

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Plantae

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comprising all living or extinct plants