Organizing Life's Diversity

The placing of information or objects into groups based on similarities is

In Aristotle's system of classification, animals were classified on the basis of their

Organisms that are similar in structure and form and successfully interbreed belong to the same

A group of related phyla is called

A group of related families is called

When organisms are classified within the same group, it can be assumed that they have a common phylogeny

The system for identifying organisms that uses two words to name the species is

Linnaeus used similarities in structure to determine relationships among organisms

A group of related classes is called

A classification system based on phylogeny is called cladistics

The greater the number of taxa two organisms have in common, the more closely related they are

A group of related orders is called

In a fanlike diagram, groups represented by rays that begin closer to the edge of the fan evolved more recently

A phylum is related to a class as a family is related to an

A group of related species is called

Eschericha Coli, is a type of bacterium that lives in the small intestine, is classified in the Kingdom...

A group of related genera is called family

In the scientific name of the White Oak, Quercus alba, Quercus is the

Evolutionary history of a species is called

A heterotrophic eukaryote that absorbs nutrients from organic materials in the environment is a(n)

a group of related classes of plants is a(n)

Prokaryotes that live in most habitats are

The branch of biology that groups and names organisms is called