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Miss Cote Taxonomy
Miss Cote's Taxonomy Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the branch of biology that names and groups organisms according to their characteristics and evolutionary history | taxonomy |
| the naturalist who devised the classification system | Linnaeus |
| largest category of classification | kingdom |
| subset of a kingdom | phylum |
| subset of a phylum | class |
| subset of a class | order |
| subset of an order | family |
| subset of a family | genus |
| most specific level of classification | species |
| two-part name | binomial nomenclature |
| evolutionary history of an organism | phylogeny |
| organizes the diversity of living things in the context of evolution | systematics |
| system of classification that uses derived characters to establish evolutionary relationships | cladistics |
| a feature that apparently evolved only within the group under consideration | derived character |
| unicellular prokaryotes with distinctive cell membranes | archaebacteria |
| unicellular prokaryotes that affect our lives | eubacteria |
| eukaryotic, usually unicellular organisms that don’t fit into the animal, plant, or fungus categories | protista |
| heterotrophic organisms that absorb their nutrients | fungi |
| eukaryotic, multicellular, mostly autotrophic organisms | plantae |
| eukaryotic, multicellular, heterotrophic organisms | animalia |