Classification of Life

Grouping of organisms or objects based on a set of criteria that helps organize, communicate and retain information

Branch of biology that identifies names and classifies species based on their natural relationships

Linnaeus's system of naming organisms, which gives a scientific two-word Latin name to each species-the first part is the genus name and the second is the epithet.

Named group of organism, such as phylum, genus or species

Taxonomic group of closely related species with a common ancester

Taxonomic group of similar related genera that is smaller than an order and larger than a genus

Taxonomic group that contains related families

Taxonomic group that contains one or more related orders.

Taxonomic group of related classes

Taxonomic term used instead of phylum to group related classes of plants and bacteria.

Taxonomic Group of related Phyla or divisions

Taxonomic group of one or more kingdoms

Evolutionary history of a species

Inherited morphological or biochemical feature that varies among species and can be used to determine patterns of descent.

Taxonomic method that models evolutionary relationships based on shared derived characteristics and phylogenetic trees.

Diagram with branches that represents the hypothesized phylogeny or evolution of a species or group; uses bioinformatics, morphological studies and information from DNA studies.

Prokaryotes whose cell walls do not contain peptidoglycan

Unicellular, multicellular, or colonial eukaryote whose cell walls may contain cellulose, can be plantlike, animal-like or funguslike.

Unicellular or multicellular eukaryote that is stationary, absorbs nutrients from organic materials in the environment, and has cell walls that contain chitin

Prevents misnomers such as starfish/jellyfish that aren't really fish

Aristotle/Carolus Linnaeus, they classified organisms by their structure, behaviors and habitats.

Carolus Linnaeus

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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Genus and species

First letter of the genus name in capital the rest not, underline both words.

The first letter of the first word capitalized and the whole thing in italics

First letter of the genus and the specifies epithet

Latin, it is the most widely understood

A group of organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring

A place where a branch splits off from the rest of the cladogram

One "Branch" or group on a cladogram

They have no shared derived characteristics- used as a comparison.

The ones that are closest to each other.

The ones that are the farthest apart.

You answer the questions on the key to narrow down the organisms that it could possibly be.

Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya

Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia, Bacteria, Archaea

Bacteria

Eukarya

Eukarya

Archaea