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42 Cards in this Set
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To _____________ means to organize things into _____________.
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classify
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The groups are based on the ways in which things are ______________
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similar
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The science of classifying living things is called
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Taxomy
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Aritototle began his systme of taxonomy by diviiding things into two lare
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kingdoms
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Organisms can have several common or popular __________
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Name
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It might be hard to identify an ___________________ if is has several names.To aviod this problem scientists use a systme that gives all organisims a
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Organism
Scientific Name |
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For example the ____________ ________________ for lion is Panthera Leo.
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scientific name
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________________ us tge genus name for large cats, and lions belong to the speicies __________________.
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Panthera
Leo |
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The language for naming organisms is ____________
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Latin
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The systme for giving organisms a scientific name was first devolped by
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Carolus Lineaus
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His two-word naming system is called
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Biuonomial nomenclature
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The first part of the name is the _________________ it is always captilized.
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genius
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The last part of the name is the _________________. It starts with a small letter
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species
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The kingdom _______________ is made up of bacteria and cyanobacteria, single-celled plantlke organism.
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Monera
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The ______________ of an organism is its evolutionary history.
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phyogeny
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Monerans are called _____________ because they do not have an organized nuclues
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prokaryotes
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A characteristic of the members of the plant kingdom is
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They can make their own food
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Can there be more than one species in a genus
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yes
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The word eukaryote means
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True kernal
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The first characteristic to consider when classifying an organism by kindgon is whether or not the cells have a
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nucleus
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An orgainsim evolutionary history
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phylogeny
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Names a specific organism
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species
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classification that divides a phylum
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orger
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created a system to classify organisms
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linnaeus
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before nucleus
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prokaryote
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a group within a family
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genus
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The tow-word naming system binomial
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nomenclature
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replaces phylum in the plant kingdom
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division
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classification that divides orders
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family
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Who was the 1st person to classify taxonomy
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aristotle
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Who made our modern system to classify organisms based on similarities.
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Linaeus
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classified based on body structures; systmes, size, shape, color and methods of obtaining foods
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Kingdom Monera
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is made up of one celled organisnms that are simple structures
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What was Linnaeus job?
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Swedish physician and naturalist
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Bionomial means what
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Two names
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Prokaryotes
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before kernal
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Eukaryote
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true kernal
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The Five Animal Kingdoms
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Animal; Plant; Fungi; Protist; and Monera
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The largest group within a kingdom is
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phylum
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A genus can have one or more species
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yes
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The four basic functions of scientific names
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help life scientists avoid erros in communication
organism with similar evolutionary hisory are classified together fives descriptive information about the species allow information to be organized and four easily |
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Dichotomous Keys
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Scientific Names are used in guids to organisms
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