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15 Cards in this Set
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the branch of biology that names and groups organisms according to their characteristics and evolutionary in history
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Taxonomy
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the first to classify living things
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Aristotle
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Aristotle classified organisms into 2 categories:
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- Animals
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Animals were divided into ____, ___, or _____ ________
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land, air, or water dwellers
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Plants were divided into _ groups based on ___________ __ _____
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3; differences in stems
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devised a system of grouping organisms into hierarchical categories
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Carolus Linnaeus used an organism's__________ (____ and _________) to categorize them
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morphology (form and structure)
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Levels of Classification:
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- Kingdom
- Phylum/Division (P: animals, D: plants) - Class - Order - Family - Genus - Species |
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In Linnaeus' system, organisms have ___ ____ _____ _____
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two part Latin names
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The first part of the name is the _____ ____
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genus name
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The second part of the name is the _______ __________
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species identifier
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The genus name is ___________ and both names are __________ or _______ __ _______
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capitalized; underlined or printed in italics
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shows the possible relationship that exists among organisms
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phylogenetic tree
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shows ancestry and shared, derived characteristics
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cladogram
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an identification guide containing descriptive ◦
phrases that lead to the classification of an organism |
dichotomous key
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