Unit 7 Vocabulary: Life Science Preview

First and largest category used to classify organisms.

A taxonomic category/group containing one or more species

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

Vascular plants which include ferns, horsetails, and club mosses

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

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

An animal that does not have a backbone

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

A taxonomic category/group containing one or more families

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plants that produce seeds for reproduction

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

An animal that has a backbone