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Vocabulary for Zoology Ch. 7

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Attributes of species that are old and have been retained from a common ancestor   Ancestral Characters  
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Actively moving organisms that have definite anterior and posterior ends   Bilateral Symmetry  
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a subset of organisms in a phylogenetic group that share a certain synapomorphy   Clade  
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Using cladograms to show relationships in evolution   Cladistics  
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Diagram depicting the evolutionary history of taxa   Cladogram  
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A level of classification between phylum and order   Class  
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A fluid filled body cavity lined by mesoderm   Coelom  
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Character that has arisen since common ancestry with an outgroup   Derived Characters  
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A sub-kingdom level of classification that includes bilateral animals in which anus form from the blastopore   Deuterostomia  
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The broadest taxonomic grouping   Domain  
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A sub-kingdom level of classification that includes animals like arthropods and nematodes   Ecdysozoa  
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The slowness of change in a characteristic of an animal over time   Evolutionary Conservation  
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The study of the classification of and evolutionary relationship among animals   Evolutionary Systematics  
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The level of classification between order and genus   Family  
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The level of classification between species and family   Genus  
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The level of classification above phylum   Kingdom  
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A sub-kingdom level of classification that includes animals like annelids and molluscs   Lophotrochozoa  
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A group of organisms descended from a single ancestor   Monophyletic Group  
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The study of naming of organisms in the fashion that reflects their evolutionary relationships   Nomenclature  
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The level of classification between class and family   Order  
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The level of classification between Kingdom and Class   Phylum  
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A form of symmetry in which any plane passing through the oralaboral axis divides AN organism in to mirror images   Radial Symmetry  
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A group of similar organisms that can interbreed.   Species  
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The study of the kinds and diversity of organisms and of the evolutionary relationships amoung them.   Systematics  
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