Exercise 13 Flashcards
The name “human” is an example of a
Common name
Current scientific thought places organisms in one of ___ kingdoms
Six
The scientific name for the ruffled grouse is Bonasa Umbellus. Bonasa is
The genus
A binomial is always a
Two part name
The science of classifying and naming organisms is known as
Taxonomy
A road that dichotomizes is
A road that forks into two roads
Most scientific names are derived from
Latin
One objection to common names is that
- Many organisms have the same common name
- Many common names exist for the same organism
- The common name may not be familiar to an individual not speaking the language of the common name
Phylogeny is the apparent
Ancestry of an organism
Common names
names which you are probably most familiar
Scientific names
unique to each kind of organism and that are used throughout the world
the first word of the binomial that designates the group to which the organism belongs
the genus
what does the scientific name of the species include?
the genus name and the species epithet
Taxonomy from most broad to most specific
Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
Taxonomy
the science of classification (categorizing) and the nomenclature (naming)
