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| the process of grouping thins based on their similarities. |
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| biologist used this to organized living things into groups so that organisms are easier to study. |
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| the scientific study of hoe living thins are classified |
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| is part of larger filed called systematics |
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| the system for naming organism in which each organism is given a unique, two-part scientific name |
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| swedish naturalist that devised a system of naming organism based on their observable features |
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| the first word in an organism's scientific name |
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| a classification grouping that contains similar,closely related organisms |
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| pumas, marbled cats, and house cats |
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| characteristics such as sharp, retractable claws and behaviors such as hunting other animals |
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the more classification levels that two organism share
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| the highest level of organization |
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| contains one or more genera |
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| contains one or more species |
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| as you move down level of classification |
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| the number of organisms decreases |
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| into domains and kingdoms |
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| have four kingdoms: protists, fungi, plants, and animals |
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| some are autotrophs, some are heterotrophs |
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| members of the domain bacteria |
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| organisms whose cells lack a nucleus |
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| nucleic acids are not contained within a nucleus here |
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| name comes from the greek "ancient" |
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| found in most extreme environments on Earth |
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| unicellular prokaryotes like bacteria |
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| their structure and chemical makeup differ from that of bacteria |
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| a dense area in a cell that contains nucleic acids |
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| organisms with cells that contain nuclei |
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| mushrooms, molds and mildew |
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| are heterotrophs and most multicellular |
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| shows probable evolutionary relationships among organisms |
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| show the order in which specific characteristics may have evolved |
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| begin at the base with the common ancestors of all the organisms in the diagram |
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| shared derived characteristic |
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| usually a homologous structure such as a backbone that is share by all organisms in a group |
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| a record of the lie forms and geologic events in earth history |
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| three long units between precambrian time and present |
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| one of the units of geologic time into which geologists divide area |
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| animals without a backbone |
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| an animal that lives part of his life in land and part in water |
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| have scaly skin and lay eggs with tough leathery shells |
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| when many types of living things became extinct at the same time |
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| a warm blooded animal that can feed its young milk |
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| shared derived characteristic |
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| usually a homologous structure |
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| organism on the label have the trait |
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| sometimes show fossils as well as organisms |
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| began 66 million years ago and it continues to the present |
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| mammals became common during this time |
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| began about 544 years ago |
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| quaternary and tertiary period |
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| cretaceous, jurassic, triassic periods |
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| permian, carboniferous, devonian, silurian, ordovician, cambrian periods |
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| begins when the earth formed |
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| earth was mostly made of the gases nitrogen, carbon dioxide and water vapor |
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| cannot pinpoint when or where life begins |
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| found fossils of singled-cell organisms in rocks that formed about 3.5 billion years ago |
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| were the first vertabrates |
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| sponges, jellyfish and worm |
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| evolved during the ordovician and silurian periods |
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| vertebrates began to invade the land |
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| earth's continents moved together to formed a great landmass, or supercontinent, called pangea |
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| known as the permian extinction |
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| affected both plants and animals on land and in seas |
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| one of the first birds, called Archaeopteryx, appeared |
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| earth's climate cooled, causing a series of ice ages |
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| earth's climate were generally warm |
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| mammals evolved to live in many different environments |
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| evolved as early as 100,000 years ago |
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