classification Flashcards
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what is the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics.
Classification
what is the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics.
Taxonomy
what is The highest classification into which living organisms are grouped in Linnean taxonomy, ranking above a phylum
Kingdom
what is something that ranks above class and below kingdom.
Phylum
what is a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks in descending order of size are life
Class
what is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the nomenclature codes
Order
what is as it relates to taxonomic rank, is between order and genus.
Family
this comes above species and below family
Genus
these names are usually written lower case and in italics, as rex in Tyrannosaurus rex.
Species
this is a social sciences to the problems associated with livestock production and management.
Animalia
these are animals possessing a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail for at least some period of their life cycles.
Chordata
a warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion of milk by females for the nourishment of the young, and (typically) the birth of live young.
mammalia
A primate is a mammal of the order Primates. In taxonomy, primates include two distinct lineages
primate
a primate of a family that includes humans and their fossil ancestors.
hominid
In the taxonomy of Linnaeus there are three kingdoms, divided into classes, and they, in turn, into orders, families, genera, and species
linnaeus
a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world, such as trees, wildflowers, mammals, reptiles, rocks, and fish.
Dichotomous Key
an area of territory owned or controlled by a ruler or government.
Domain
microorganisms that are similar to bacteria in size and simplicity of structure but radically different in molecular organization.
Archaebacteria
Bacteria constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms.or germs
Bacteria
In some biological taxonomy schemes, protists were a large group of diverse eukaryotic, mainly unicellular microorganisms, that do not form tissues.
Protista
A fungus is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms
fungi
Plants, also called green plants, are multicellular eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae
plantae
