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| Classify organisms and assign each organism and assign each organism a universally accepted name |
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| Classification system in which each species is assigned a two-part siecntific name |
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| Group of closely related species, and the first part of the scientific name in binomial nomenclature. |
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| Group of level of organization into which organism are classified. |
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| A group of genera that share many characteristics. |
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| Broad taxonomic category composed of similar families. |
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| Group of closely related classes. |
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| Large taxonomic group, consisting of closely related phyla. |
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| Study of evolutionary relationships among organisms. |
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| Evolutionary Classification |
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| Method of grouping organisms together according to their evolutionary history. |
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| Characteristic that appears in recent parts of a lineage, but not in its order members. |
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| Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organism. |
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| Model that used DNA comparisons to estimate the length of time that two species have been evolving. independently. |
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| Most inclusive taxonomic category; larger than a kingdom. |
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| Domain of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls containing peptidoglycan. |
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| Kingdom of unicellular prokaryotes whose cell walls are made up of pepidoglycan. |
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| Domain of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls that do not contain peptidoglycan. |
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| Kingdom of unicellular prokaryotes whose cell walls do not contain peptidoglycan. |
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| Domain of all organisms whose cells have nuclei, including protists, plants, fungi,, and animals. |
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| Kingdom composed of eukaryotes that are not classified as plants, animals, or fungi. |
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| Kingdom composed of heterotrophs; many obtain energy and nutrients from dead organic matter. |
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| Kingdom of milticellular photosynthetic autotrophs that have cell walls containing cellulose. |
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| Kingdom of multicellular eukaryotic heterotrophs whose cells do not have cell walls. |
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