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What is a genus?
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Unit of classification
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What is a taxonomy?
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The science of naming and classifying organisms
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What is a scientifc name?
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Unique two word name for a species
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What are the seven levels?
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Species
Genera Families Orders Classes Phyla Kingdoms |
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Who came up with the biological species concept?
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A defintion of species first stated in 1942 by the biologist Ernst Mayr of Harvard Univeristy
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What is the biological species concept?
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A biological species is a group of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups
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What are hybrids?
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Individauls of different species interbreed and produce offspring
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WHat is the convergent evolution?
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Organisms evolve similar features independently often because the live in similar habitats
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What are analogous chracters?
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Similar features that evolved through convergent evolution
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