Classification Of Species Flashcards

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Species

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Organisms that are capable of interbreeding together to produce viable offspring

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Taxonomy

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Classifying living things within a hierarchical order

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3 domains of life

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Archaea
Bacteria
Eukarya

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Archaea

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Prokaryote
Lacks a membrane bound nucleus
Unicellular
Asexual
Distinctive cell membrane and wall characteristics

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Bacteria

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Prokaryote
Lacks a membrane bound nucleus
Unicellular
Asexual
Move by flagella

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Eukarya

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Membrane bound nucleus
Unicellular or multicellular
Sexual
Each kingdom has unique specialization

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Four kingdoms

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Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia

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Kingdom Protista

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Can be Autotrophs (produce own food) or heterotrophs(ingest own food)

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Kingdom fungi

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Secrete digestive enzymes and then absorb the macromolecules

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Kingdom Plantae

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Autotrophs that are capable of photosynthesis

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Kingdom Animalia

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Heterotrophs that ingest their food

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How are domain Kingdom and the others classified

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Domain- cellular composition
Kingdom- mode of ingestion
All the rest- morphology

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13
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Binomial nomenclature

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-Latin and italicized
-Genus and Species names
-First name capitalized the second not

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