The Tree Of Life

One of the three domains of life, containing single-celled prokaryotes in the kingdom Archaea

• Bacteria
• Eukarya 
• Archaea

One of the three domain of life, containing single-celled prokaryotes in the kingdom Bacteria.

• Archaea
• Bacteria
• Eukarya

Naming system in which each species is given a two-part scientific name (genus and species) using latin words.

• binomial nomenclature
• cladistics
• cladogram

Method of organizing species by relationships evolutionary in which species are grouped according to the order that they diverged from their ancestral line

• Derived characteristic
• molecular clock
• cladistics

diagram that displays proposed evolutionary relationships amoung a group of species 

• claudistics
• cladogram
• derived characteristic 

trait that differs in structure or function from that found in the ancestral line for a group of species; used in constructing cladograms

• derived characteristic
• phenotype
• phylogeny 

one of the three domains of life, contains all eukaryotes in kingdoms Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia

• Eukarya
• Archaea
• Bacteria 

first name in binomial nomenclature; the second- most specific taxon in the Linnaean classification system that includes one or more physically similar species, which are thought to be closely relared

• genus 
• phylogeny 
• taxon

DNA found only in the mitochondria, often used as a molecular clock

• Mitochondrial rRNA
• Mitochondrial DNA 
• Molecular clock 

theoretical clock that uses the rate of mutation to measure evolutionary time 

• Molecular clock
• taxonomy 
• evolutionary clock