Classification Unit

Question 1

Grouping of Organisms or objects based on a set of criteria that helps organisms communicate and retain information.

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Classification

Question 2

Is a discipline of biology primarily concerned with identifying, naming and classifying species based on natural relationships.

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Taxonomy

Question 3

Gives each species a scientific name that has two parts. They are Genus, and specific name.

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Binomial Nomenclature

Question 4

A named group of organisms is called a?

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Taxon

Question 5

Defined as a group of species that are closely related and share a common ancestor.

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Genus

Question 6

It is the next higher taxon consisting of similar related genera.

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Family

Question 7

Contains related families?

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Order

Question 8

Contains related orders

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class

Question 9

Containing related class

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Phylum

Question 10

Contains related classes of bacteria and plants.

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division

Question 11

The taxon composed of related phyla or divisions is a ?

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Kingdom

Question 12

Is the broadest of all the taxa and contains one or more kingdoms.

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Domain

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Is the evolutionary history of species.

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phylogeny

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Inherited features that vary among species.

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Characters

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It is a model used to compare DNA sequences from two different species,

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Molecular clock

Question 16

is a method that classifies organism according to the order that they diverged from a common ancestor.

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Cladistics

Question 17

is branch diagram that represents the proposed phylogeny.

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cladogram

Question 18

A singled cell bacteria no nucleus

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Archaea

Question 19

Simple alga

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Protists

Question 20

any of a group of spore producing organisms

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fungus