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An analysis of derived characters is used to generate a ________.
cladogram
Name Linnaeus's seven levels of classification fom largest to smallest.
(D) - K - P - C - O - F - G - S
The 2 smallest categories in Linnaeus's classifications are ______, _____.
species and genus
In taxonomy, a group at any level is call a ?
taxon
Linnaeus's two-word naming system that scientists use to assign each kind of organism a universally accepted name is known as ___________.
binomial nomenclature
The procedure of grouping organisms based on their evolutionary history is called ___________.
evolutionary classification
Animals that are warm blooded, have body hair and produce milk for their young are grouped into which class?
Mammalia
All organisms in the kingdoms - Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia -- are __________.
eukaryotes
Biologists use a common classification system based on _________.
similarities that have scientific significance
Biologists currently group organisms into categories that represent lines of evolutionary descent, or _________, not just physical similarities.
phylogeny
The genes of many organisms show important similarities at the _________ level.
molecular
The _______ is a more inclusive category than any other—larger than a kingdom.
domain
Members of the domain Bacteria are unicellular prokaryotes and their cell walls _________ peptidoglycan.
contain
Members of the domain Archaea are unicellular prokaryotes and their cell walls _______ peptidoglycan.
lack
The domain Eukarya consists of organisms that have a nucleus and is organized into four kingdoms: ___, ___, ____, _____
Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia