Classification Flashcards
the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics.
Classification
the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics.
Taxonomy
the system of nomenclature in which two terms are used to denote a species of living organism, the first one indicating the genus and the second the specific epithet.
Binomial nomenclature
a taxonomic group of any rank, such as a species, family, or class.
Taxon
a principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family, and is denoted by a capitalized Latin name
Genus
is a group of people related either by consanguinity
Family
the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.
Order
mammals or classifications
class
a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom.
Phylum
is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic, the others being addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
Division
any of the three primary divisions into which natural objects are grouped
Kingdom
contains a group of computers that can be accessed and administered with a common set of rules.
Domain
the branch of biology that deals with phylogenesis.
Phylogeny
the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.
Characters
the average rate at which a species’ genome accumulates mutations, used to measure their evolutionary divergence and in other calculations.
Molecular clock
