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| taxonomy | the discipline of classifying organisms and assigning each organism a universally accepted name |
| binomial nomenclature | a classification system in which each species is assigned a two-part scientific name |
| genus | a group of closely related species, first part of the scientific name in binomial nomenclature |
| taxa | the geneeric name for levels of organization |
| family | a group of genera that share many characteristics |
| order | a group of similar families |
| class | a group of similar orders |
| phylum | a group of closely related classes |
| kingdom | the largest taxonomic group, consisting of closely related phyla |
| cladogram | a diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms |
| domain | the most inclusive taxonomic category; larger than a kingdom |
| Eukarya | a domain of all organisms whose cells have nuclei, including protists, plants, fungi and animals |
| Protista | a kingdom composed of eukaryotes that are not classified as plants, animals or fungi |
| Fungi | a kingdom composed of heterotrophs; man y obtain energy and nutrients from dead organic matter |
| Plantae | a kingdom of multicellular photosynthetic autotrophs that have cell walls containing cellulose |
| Animalia | a kingdom of multicellular eukaryotic heterotrophs whose cells do not have cell walls |
| Latin | the language used to create scientific names |
| capitalized | the first letter of the GENUS is always ____ |
| lower-case | the first letter of the species is always _____ |
| italicized | a scientific name is always ____ when typed |
| chordata | the phylum humans are classified in |
| mammalia | the class humans are classified in |
| primate | the order humans are classified in |
| Homo | the genus humans are classified in |
| sapiens | the species name for humans |
| Linnaeus | the scientist that created our system of classification |
