Classification Unit Flashcards
Grouping of Organisms or objects based on a set of criteria that helps organisms communicate and retain information.
Classification
Is a discipline of biology primarily concerned with identifying, naming and classifying species based on natural relationships.
Taxonomy
Gives each species a scientific name that has two parts. They are Genus, and specific name.
Binomial Nomenclature
A named group of organisms is called a?
Taxon
Defined as a group of species that are closely related and share a common ancestor.
Genus
It is the next higher taxon consisting of similar related genera.
Family
Contains related families?
Order
Contains related orders
class
Containing related class
Phylum
Contains related classes of bacteria and plants.
division
The taxon composed of related phyla or divisions is a ?
Kingdom
Is the broadest of all the taxa and contains one or more kingdoms.
Domain
Is the evolutionary history of species.
phylogeny
Inherited features that vary among species.
Characters
It is a model used to compare DNA sequences from two different species,
Molecular clock
is a method that classifies organism according to the order that they diverged from a common ancestor.
Cladistics
is branch diagram that represents the proposed phylogeny.
cladogram
A singled cell bacteria no nucleus
Archaea
Simple alga
Protists
any of a group of spore producing organisms
fungus
