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Ch. 14 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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science of describing, naming, and classifying organisms | taxonomy |
system for giving each organism a two-word scientific name that consists of genus name followed by the species name | binomial nomenclature |
the level of classification that comes after family and that contains similiar species | genus |
the taxonomic category below the order and above the genus | family |
the taxonomic category below the class and above the family | order |
the taxonomic category containing orders w/ common characterisitics | class |
the taxonomic group below kingdom and above class | phylum |
highest taxonomic category, which contains a group of similiar phyla | kingdom |
group of similiar kingdoms | domain |
group of organisms that can reproduce only among themselves and that are usually contained in a geographic region | biological species |
evolutionary history of a species or taxonomic group | phylogeny |
process by which unrelated species become more similiar as they adapt to the same kind of environment | convergent evolution |