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ch14 biology vocab

ch.14 vocabulary

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the science of naming and classifying organisms. taxonomy
linngeus's two-word latin name system for naming an organism. binomial nomenclature
is a taxonomic category containing simular species. Genus
similar genera are grouped into family
united into a bind order
with simular characteristics are assigned phylum
phyla are collected into. kingdom
grouped into Domains
as a group of natural populations biological species
the evolutionary history of a species or taxonomic group phylogeny
in organism not closely related to one another convergent evolutions
anse through convergent andlogous characters
is a method of analysts that reconstructs phylogenies by inferring realationships based on shared characters. cladistics
as a group of natural populations that are inerbreeding or that could interbreed,and that are reproductively isolated from other such groups. biological species
ancestral character
similarities evlove in organisisms not closely related to one another, often because teh organisms live in similar habitats. convergent evloution
if it evoled in a common ancestor of both groups. thus when considering the realationship between birds and ammmals, a backbone is an ancestral character.having feathers is a derived character. ancestral charaacter
evoled in an ancestor of one of group but not of the other. derived character
which shows the the evolutionay realtionships among groups of oganisms cladogram
taxonomists give varying degrees of importance to characters and thus produce a subjective analysis of evolutionary realationships evolutionary systematics
branching diagram that displays the phylogenetic tree
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