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SCIENCE
Plants vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Taxonomy | The study of classifying organisms |
Taxonomist | Scientist who group organisms |
Levels of Classification | Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
Mnemonic | King Phillip Came Over For Great Spaghetti |
5 Kingdoms | Plant, Animal, Fungi, Protist, Monerans |
Divisons (plant) | In the animal kingdom, phyla are referred to as this. There are two groups: vascular and non-vascular |
Division (animals) | In the animal kingdom, there are 35 different phyla split into two groups: vertebrates and invertebrates. |
Scientific name | The first and the last name of an organism (genus\ species) for example: pinus taeda (latin) or the Loblolly pine (English) |
Genus | First name of an organism (written in Latin) always capitalized. |
Species | Last name of an organism (written in Latin) never capitalized. |