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Who was Cardius Linnaeus? |
He was a scientist who developed systems for both naming and organizing species into groups. |
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all 4000 he named were __________ and __________ |
plants and animals |
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today scientists have named over _____________ species. |
1,000,000 |
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binomial means |
two names |
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nomenclature means |
list of names |
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binomial nomenclature |
the two part naming system used to identify species |
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genus |
the first part of a binomial name the groups together closely related species. |
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there are seven levels below domain in our classification system, what are they |
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species |
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how do taxonomists identify organisms |
they use the dichotomous key |
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dichotomous key |
a series of questions that always has two answers and can be used to identify and organisms genus and species. |
