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Ch.14
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| science of describing, naming, and classifing organisms. | taxonomy |
| system for giving each organism a two-word scientific name that consits of genus name followed by the species name | binomial nomenclature |
| the level of classifitction that comes after family and contains similar species | genus |
| the taxonomic category below the order and above the genus | family |
| the taxonomic category below the class and above the family | order |
| a taxonomic category containing orders with common characteristics | class |
| the taxonomic group below kingdom and above class | phylum |
| highest taxonomic category, which contains a group of similar phyla | kingdom |
| group of similar kingdoms | domain |
| group of organisms that can reproduce only among themeselves and that are usally contained in a geographic region | biological species |
| evolutionary history of a species or taxonomic group | phylongeny |