Classification Vocab Practice

1. _____________: The branch of science concerned with classifications of organisms.

• Cladiogram

• Cladistics

• Taxonomy

_________________: The highest taxonomic level; there are three: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya

• Kingdom

• Domain

• Hierarchy

__________________: The second highest level of taxonomic classification.

• Binomial nomenclature

• Kingdom

• Domain

__________________: The system of naming organisms scientifically, developed by Carolus Linnaeus; consists of genus and species names

• Abiogenesis

• Biogenesis

• Binomial nomenclature

__________________: A branching diagram representing a hypothesis about the evolutionary descent of groups of organisms from a common ancestor.

• Cladistics

• Cladiogram

• Taxonomy

__________________: A classification system based on shared characteristics between groups or organisms and their common ancestor

• Cladistics

• Cladiogram

• Bionomial nomenclature

_______________ the evolutionary history of an organism

• Classification

• Phylogeny

• Hierarchy

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_________________ Living matter comes from other pre-existing living matter

• Biogenesis

• Abiogenesis

• Speciation

___________________ Living matter comes from nonliving matter

• Abiogenesis

• Biogenesis

• Speciation

______________________ The formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution

• Classification

• Speciation

• Hierarchy

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