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| classification | the arrangement of organisms into orderly groups based on their similarities and presumed evolutionary relationships. |
| kindom | the most general of the seven levels of classification |
| phylum | the level of claaification after kingdom;the organisms from all the kingdom are sirte into several phyla |
| class | the level on after phylum;the oranisms in all phyla are sorted into class. |
| order | The level of classification after class; the organisms in all the classes are sorted into order |
| family | The level of classification after order;the organisms in all order are sorted into families |
| genus | the level of classification after family; the organisms in all families are sorted into genera. |
| species | The most specific of the seven level of classification;characterized by group of organisms that can mate with one another to produce fertile. |
| taxonomy | The science of identifying,classification and naming live thing. |
| dichotomous key | an adi to identifying unkown organisms that consists of several piars of decriptive statments;of each pair of statements only one will apply to the unkown ogranisms and that statments will lead to another set of statments and so on, unitl the unkown organims can be indentified. |
