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| taxonomy | science of naming and classifying organisms |
| Plantae kingdom | eukaryotic, autotrophs, multicellular are discriptive of this kingdom |
| Fungi | mildew, mold, and mushrooms belong to this kingdom |
| Second largest kingdom | Plantae |
| Species | most specific biological unit in Linnaeus's system |
| Odds and ends group | Protista kingdom |
| Prokaryotes | organisms that lack a nucleus |
| biological species | group of interbreeding populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups |
| cladistics | a system of taxonomy that reconstructs evolutionary history |
| convergent evolution | organisms evolve similar features independently because they often live in similar habitats |
| Animalia | largest kingdom |
| binomial nomenclature | Linnaeus two word system for naming organisms |
| phylum | classification level in which classes with similar characteristics are grouped |
| autotroph | describes organisms that can make their own food |
| Protista | Paramecium, Euglena and Amoeba belong to this kingdom |
| cladograms | used by biologists to look at the phylogeny of an organism |
