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