Ch. 14 Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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science of describing, naming, and classifying organisms | taxonomy
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system for giving each organism a two-word scientific name that consists of genus name followed by the species name | binomial nomenclature
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the level of classification that comes after family and that contains similiar species | genus
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the taxonomic category below the order and above the genus | family
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the taxonomic category below the class and above the family | order
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the taxonomic category containing orders w/ common characterisitics | class
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the taxonomic group below kingdom and above class | phylum
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highest taxonomic category, which contains a group of similiar phyla | kingdom
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group of similiar kingdoms | domain
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group of organisms that can reproduce only among themselves and that are usually contained in a geographic region | biological species
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evolutionary history of a species or taxonomic group | phylogeny
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process by which unrelated species become more similiar as they adapt to the same kind of environment | convergent evolution
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