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13 Cards in this Set
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Taxonomy |
Science of classification |
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John Ray |
English naturalist who was the first to develop a modern definition for the word species |
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Species |
A distinct type of organism |
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Carolus Linnaeus |
Father of taxonomy |
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Primary basis for classifying living things |
Body structure |
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Plants are grouped into 2 main categories based on their vascular system |
Tracheophytes and bryophytes |
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Tracheophytes |
Vascular system |
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Bryophytes |
Non vascular system |
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Seedless tracheophytes |
Fern, horsetails, club mosses, |
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Types of bryophytes |
Mosses and liverworts |
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Horsetails |
Nonseed plant that carries out photosynthesis in it's stem |
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Classification of plants (in order) |
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
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Scientific name |
Name that uniquely identifies a species by listing its genus and species name |
