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Ch. 14 & 27 Vocab
Classification section chapter 14 & 27
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Taxonomy | The science of naming and classifying organisms |
| Binomial nomenclature | 2 word system for naming organisms |
| Ancestral Character | Similarities that evolved in a common ancestor of 2 different groups |
| Convergent Evolution | Similarities that evolve in organisms that are not closely related to one another |
| Domain | The most inclusive classification or organisms |
| Phylogeny | An organisms evolutionary history |
| Family | Contains genera |
| Cladogram | objective evolutionary analysis |
| Species | least inclusive classification group |
| Biological species | a group of natural populations that are interbreeding or could interbreed, and are reproductively isolated form other such groups |