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12 Cards in this Set
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Taxonomy
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Science of naming and classifying organisms.
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Designed Binomial Nomeclature
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Binomial Nomeclature
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Two-Word Latin name for each species
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Aristotle
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First scientist to classify organism
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Biological Species
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group of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations that are REPRODUCTIVELY ISOLATED from other such groups
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Convergent Evolution
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Organisms evolve similar features often because they live in similar habitats.
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Analogous Characters
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Similar features that evolved through convergent evolution
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Phylogeny
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Evolutionary history of a species that are look at through homogenous characters.
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Cladistics
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System of taxonomy that reconstructs phylogenies by inferring relationships based on similarities
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Derived Traits
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unique characteristics
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Cladograms
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shows the evolutionary relationship amoung groups
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Evolutionary systematics
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taxonomists give varying degrees of importance to characters and thus produce a subjective analysis of evolutionary relation; full observational power of the biologist.
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