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Taxonomy |
Science of describing, naming, and classifying organisms. |
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Genus |
A level of class. |
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Binomial nomenclature |
A system for giving each organism |
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Phylogeny |
The evolutionary history of a species or taxonomic group |
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Cladistics |
A phylogenetic classification system that uses shared derived characters and ancestry as the sole criterion for grouping taxa. |
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Bacteria |
Extremely small, single celled organisms that usually have a cell wall and that usually reproduce by cell devision; members of the domain Bacteria. |
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Archaea |
Prokaryotes that are distinguished from other Prokaryotes by differences in their genetics and in the makeup of their cell wall; |
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Eukaryote |
An organism made up of cells that |
