Classification Flashcards

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Action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characters

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Classification

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Branch of science concerned with classification , especially of organisms systematics

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Taxonomy

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2 Rank in a Taxonomic category. There are 5 of them

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Kingdom

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3 highest Rank.

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Phylum

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4Highest Rank

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Class

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5Highest Rank

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Order

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6 Highest Rank

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Family

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7 Highest Rank

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Genus

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9
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Lowest Rank

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Species

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10
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All animals that move spontaneously and independently at some point in their lives

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Animalia

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Some stage of development a notochord, dorsally situated nervous system and Gill Clefts, Vertebrates, Lancelets and Tunicates

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Chordata

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Warm Blooded higher vertebrates that nourish their young with milk

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Mammalia

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Monkeys and Apes

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Primate

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14
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Humans and their Fossil ancestors

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Hominid

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15
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Founder of the Taxonomy system

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Linnaeus

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Tool that is used to determine the identity of items in the natural world.

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Dichotomous Key

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Microorganisms that are similar to bacteria in size and simplicity of structure

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Archaebacteria

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Highest Rank

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Domain

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Unicellular microorganisms that have cell walls but lack organelles

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Bacteria

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Eukaryotic organisms that are unicellular and sometimes colonial or less often microcellular

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Protista

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Group of unicellular, multicellular or syntactical spore producing organisms

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Fungi

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Kingdom for all living or extinct plants

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Plantae