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What is taxonomy? |
The field in biology that has to do with classifying organisms |
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What is domain? |
The largest group of the classification system |
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What is Kingdom? |
The second level down of the classification system |
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What is phylum? |
The third level down of the classification system |
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How do you remember the classification level order? |
Dear King Philip come over for good sex |
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What is a taxon? |
An individual level of taxonomy |
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What are the three types of domain? |
Eukaryote, archaea, bacteria |
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What is a eukaryote? |
Organism with cells that contain a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles |
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What is a prokaryote? |
Single cell organism which lacks a nucleus and organelles except ribosomes |
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What is binomial nomenclature? |
Classification that gives different kind of organisms its own two part scientific name |
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What is a genus? |
The first part of an organism's scientific name |
The HOMO in homosapien |
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What is a chordate? |
Animal with a dorsal tubular nerve cord, a notochord, pharyngeal pouches, and postnatal tail at some point in it's development |
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What the hell is a phylogenetic tree? |
Diagram with branches that show evolutionary links among different groups of organisms |
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What is phylogeny? |
The evolutionary history of a group of organisms |
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What is phylogeny? |
The evolutionary history of a group of organisms |
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What is a cladogram? |
Branching diagram representing the proposed phylogeny of a species or group |
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What's a dichotomous key? |
Method of determining what a species is by asking questions or whatever |
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What's an invertebrate? |
Without backbones, about 95 - 99% of animal species |
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What is hierarchy? |
An organisation in which people or groups are ranked one above or below the other to show relatedness |
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What is an autotroph? |
An organism that makes its own food by light aka photosynthesis, or by processing inorganic stuff aka chemosynthesis |
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What is photosynthesis ? |
Making your own food using light |
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What is chemosynthesis? |
making your own food by processing in organic stuff |
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What is a heterotroph? |
An organism that gets energy by eating material produced by autotrophs |
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