CH 17 - Organizing Life's Diversity

He developed the concept of two-part scientific names based on Latin words.

Which two animals are the most closely related?

Which taxon contains one or more Families?

The taxa Phylum is made up of which other taxa?

Contains related classes.

All of this Kingdom have cell walls of peptidoglycan and are unicellular...

Model used to compare DNA sequences from 2 diff. species.

Inherited features that vary among species.

Which of the following is not a Kingdom in the Domain Eukarya?

Eukaryotes...

The grouping of objects or organisms based on a set of criteria.

A named group of organisms.

The study of organizing into groups based on similar structures is called...

In which taxonomic group can members mate and having viable offspring?

Naming system that gives each species a 2 part name, genus and specific epithet.

Taxa composed of related phyla.

What is organism B?

A group of species that are closely related that share a common ancestor.

Broadest of all taxa

Taxon of similarly related genera.

More ancient than bacteria and do not contain peptidoglycan

Contains related families

Discipline of Bio. that identifies, names,& classifies species based on natural relationships.

Contains related orders

This Kingdom is made of multicellular autotrophs with cell walls.

Can be animal like, plant like, or fungus like.

You are a(n)...

Absorbs nutrients in its environment.

The lack of cell walls in all organisms is a characteristic of which Kingdom?

The evolutionary history of a species.