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TAXONOMY, CLASSIFICATION, AND NAMING OF LIVING THINGS Flashcards

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study of diversity of organisms and the evolutionary relationships between them

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systematics

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the scientific study of describing, naming, and classifying living organisms

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taxonomy

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main rules in taxonomy

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latin
capital letter
italic or underlined
name of author

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any groupings of organisms that share a particular set of characteristics

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taxon

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organized set of couplets or mutually exclusive characteristics of biological organisms

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dichotomous key/taxonomic key

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invented the 6 kindom system

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robert whitaker

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taxonomic group order

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domain > kingdom > phylum > class > order . family . genus > species

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six kingdoms

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monera
archea
plantae
animalia
fungi
protista

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