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Week 1 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| biology | branch of knowledge that deals with the study of living things |
| 6 characteristics of living things | They absorb nutrients They perform respiration They grow They reproduce They respond to their environment They have cells |
| Taxonomy | the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms |
| Carl Linnaeus | credited with developing the system for classifying |
| binomial nomenclature | two-name system indicating the first name as genus and the second as species |
| Seven levels of classification | Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species |