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Bio ch. 14 vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| taxonomy | naming and classifying organisms |
| Binomial nomenclature | two words Latin naming organism |
| genus | taxonomy category containing similar |
| family | similar genera are grouped |
| order | similar families are combined |
| class | orders with common properties are united |
| phylum | classes with similar characteristics |
| kingdom | similar phyla are collected |
| domain | similar kingdoms are grouped |
| Biological species | a group of natural populations that are interbreeding or that could interbreed, and that are reproductively isolated from other such groups |
| phylogeny | classification based on similarities should reflect |
| convergent evolution | similarities evolve in organisms not closely related to one another |
| analogous characters | similarities that arise through convergent evolution |
| cladistics | a method of analysis that reconstructs phylogenies by inferring relationships based on shared characters |
| ancestral character | two different groups, if it evolved in a common ancestor of both groups |
| derived character | evolved in an ancestor of one group but not of the other |
| cladogram | Biologist using cladisics give constructs a branching diagram |
| evolutionary systematics | taxonomists give varying degrees of thus produce a subjective analysis of evolutionary relationships |
| phylogentic tree | evolutioary relationships are displayed in a branching diagram |