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ch 14 vocab fiyori

bio ch 14

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taxonomy the sience of describing, naming, and classifying organisms.
binomial nomenclature a system for giving each organism a two-word scientific name that consists of the genus name followed by the species name.
genus the level of classiication that comes after family ans that contains simailar species.
family the taxonomic category below the order and above the genus.
order the taxonomic category below the class and above the family.
class a taxonomic category containing orders with common characteristics.
phylum the taxonomic group below kingdom and above class
kingdom the highest taxonomic category, which contains a group of similar phyla.
domain similar kingdom are group .
biological species a group of organisms than can reproduce only among themselves and that are usually contained in a geographic region.
phylogeny the evolutionary history of species or taxonomic group.
convergent evolution the process by which unrelated species become more similar as they adapt to the same king of environment.
analogous character similarities that arise through convergent evolution.
cladistics a phylogenetics classification system that uses shared derived characters and ancestry as the sole criterion for grouping taxa
ancestral character with respect to two different groups, a character is define as an ancestral character if it evolved in a common ancestor of both groups.
derived character a unique characteristics of a particular group of organisms.
cladogram a diagram that is based on patterns of shared, derived traits and that shows the evolutionary relatinships between groups of organisms.
evolutionary systematics taxonomists give varying degrees of importnace to characters and thus produce a subjective analysis of evolutionary relationships.
phylogenetic tree a branching diagram that shows how organisms are related through evolution.
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