Classification Flashcards

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Classification

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Arranging organisms into groups based on their similarities and differences

Makes it easier for scientists to identify and study them

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Binomial System of naming

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GENERIC NAME - states genus ( capital beginning )

SPECIFIC NAME - states the species (underlined )

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Taxonomy and groups

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Grouped based on evolutionary features

K-ingdom
P-hylum
C-class
O-rder
F-amily
G-enus
S-species
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Phylogeny

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Study of evolutionary relationships between organisms – know how closely related they are

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Common answctor

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Last species in the last that existed before two new species began to evolve separately

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