Classification

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Classification

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The division between organisms into groups, or classes, based on specific characteristics

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Class

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A taxonomic rate

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Kingdom

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

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Chordata

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any of a phylum of animals having at least at some stage of development a notochord, dorsally situated central nervous system, and gill clefts and including the vertebrates, lancelets, and tunicates.

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Dichotomous Key

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an aid that is used to identify organisms and that consists of the answers to a series of questions

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Archaebacteria

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A kingdom made up of bacteria that live in extreme environments

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Family

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One of the eight major taxonomic ranks

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Genus

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A taxonomic category ranking used in biological classification

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Animalia

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A kingdom made up of complex, multi cellular organisms that lack cell walls , can usually move around, and quickly respond to their environment

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Chordata

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Any of a phylum of animals having at least at some stage of development a notochord, dorsally situated central nervous system, and gill clefts and including the vertebrates, lancelets, and tunicates.

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Hominid

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A type of primate characterized by bipedalism

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Dichotomous Key

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An aid that is used to identify organisms and that consists of the answers to a series of questions

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Domain

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The highest taxonomic rank of organisms in the three-domain system of taxonomy

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Bacteria

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Microscopic living organisms, usually one-celled, that can be found everywhere

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Taxonomy

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The science of classifying, describing, and naming organisms

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Phylum

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a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom

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Species

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a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding

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Primate

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A type of mammal that is characterized by opposable thumbs and binocular vision

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Mammalia

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warm-blooded higher vertebrates that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans

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Linnaeus

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Swedish botanist who created the current system for classifying plants and animals

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Plantae

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Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants

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Fungi

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Any of a large division of thallophytes, including molds, mildews, mushrooms, rusts, and smuts, that are parasites on living organisms or that feed upon dead organic material: fungi lack chlorophyll, true roots, stems, and leaves, and reproduce by means of spores:

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Protista

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A kingdom consisting of unicellular or simple multicellular organisms that possess nuclei and cannot be classified as animals, plants, or fungi