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Diversity of Animals (final)
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Biology
12th Grade
01/08/2009
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Taxon
 Definition
a group of organisms that are gentically and evolutionarily related
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Binomial Nomenclature
 Definition
a full scientific name consisting of a genus name and a species name
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Linnaeus
 Definition
Swedish scientist who classified organisms by shared characteristics
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Autotroph
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an organism that makes its own food
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Heterotroph
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an organism that takes in other organisms for food
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Monophyletic
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from a single ancestral form
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Polyphyletic
 Definition
from many ancestral forms
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