Unit 7 Vocabulary: Life Science Preview

A step by step approach used to identify an organism using a series of paired descriptions

Branch of biology that groups and names organisms based on studies of shared characteristics

Plants that produce seeds for reproduction

Classification system in which each species is assigned a two-part scientific name

A Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature.

Vascular plants which include ferns, horsetails, and club mosses

A taxonomic category/group containing one or more families

A taxonomic category/group below phylum made up of several orders

In biology, the ordering of organisms into categories like families, orders, and genera

Cone-bearing seed plants that lack flowers and thus have naked seeds without fruits

Animals with notochord, dorsal nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits at some time in its lives

An animal that does not have a backbone

A principal taxonomic category/group that ranks above class and below kingdom

A taxonomic category/group containing one or more species

A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring

A flowering plant that forms seeds inside a protective chamber called an ovary.

First and largest category used to classify organisms.

An animal that has a backbone

Plant tissue made of cells joined into tubes that transport water and nutrients in a plant

Plants that lack a well-developed system of tubes for transporting water and minerals