| A | B |
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| The science of naming and classifying organisms | Taxonomy |
| Two word system for naming species | Binomial Nomenclature |
| A taxonomic category containing similar species | Genus |
| Genera (plural for genus) are grouped into | Families |
| Families are combined into an | Order |
| Orders are grouped into a | Class |
| A group of Classes with similar characteristics is called a | Phylum |
| Similar phyla are collected into a | Kingdom |
| List the taxonomic groups from broadest to most specific | Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species |
| What are the three Domians of living things? | Archea, Bacteria, and Eukarya |
| The Domain Eukarya includes what four Kingdoms? | Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, and Protista |
| A group of organisms that are closely related and naturally mate to produce fertile offspring | Biological Species |
| The evolutionary history of a species or taxonomic groups | Phylogeny |
| The process by which unrelated species become more similar as they adapt to the same environment (Example: sharks and dolphins) | Convergent Evolution |
| Similarites that develop through convergent evolution (For Example: the structure of the wings of birds and insects are different, but both enable the animals to fly) | Analogous Characters |
| Classification system that uses derived characteristics and ancestry to group organisms | Cladistics |
| A characterisitcs that evolved in a common ancester of two different groups of living things (For example: a backbone found in the ancestor of mammals and birds) | Ancestral Characters |
| A characteristic that is unique to a group of organisms (For example: feathers in birds) | Derived Character |
| A diagram that shows eveloutionary relationships between groups of organisms | Cladogram |
| What are the six kingdoms of living things? | Archeabacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia |
| What two kingdoms are prokaryotic? | Archeabacteria and Eubacteria |
| Which kingdom's members are multicellular and autotrophic? | Plantae |
| Which kingdom's members are multicellular, heterotrophic, and have no cell walls? | Animalia |
| Which kingdom's members can be unicellular or multicellular and autotrophic or heterotrophic? | Protista |
| Which kingdom's members are unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic, and have cell walls? | Fungi |
