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| Frage | Antworten |
| Define Species | - population whose members can breed freely in nature & produce fertile offspring |
| Define Taxonomy | - science of naming, identifying and classifying species |
| Define Phylogeny | - the evolutionary development and history of a species or group of organisms |
| What are the 7 levels of classification? | - 1. species, 2. genus, 3. family, 4. order, 5. class, 6. phylum, 7. kingdom |
| What is a clade? | - group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor & all its lineal descendants & represents a single "branch" of the "tree of life" |
| Explain how a scientific name is written using binomial nomenclature | - two part latin name, 1st part is the genus to which the species belongs, second part of the name is one species within the genus |
| Dichotomous Key | - tool used to identify organisms with unfamiliar characteristic, series of questions with 2 possible answers that eventually leads to the identification of the organism |
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