Classifications vocabulary

The most specific level of classification

• species

• genus

• kingdom

• phylum

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Evolutionary relationships are displayed in a branching diagram called____?

• Taxonomy

• Phylogenetic Tree

• Dichotomous Key

• Derived characters

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

Order with common properties get put together in this level of taxa

• Genus

• Species

• Class

• Domain

Unique characteristics that are used in making a cladogram

• derived characters

• dichotomous key

• phylogeny

• taxonomy

Organisms that obtain food by consuming other living things

• autotroph

• heterotroph

• domain

• derived character

Theory that proposes that eukaryotic cells formed from a symbiotic relationship among several different prokaryotic cells

• Endosymbiotic Theory

• Gravity

• Binomial Nomenclature

• Phylogenetic Theory

A level of taxa that contains many phyla with similar characteristics

• Order

• domain

• Class

• Kingdom

The science of naming and classifying organisms.

• cladogram

• taxonomy

• classonomy

• phylogeny

A branch diagram used to show evolutionary relationships in groups of shared derived characters

• Cladogram

• dichotomous key

• phylogenetic tree

• binomial nomenclature

The most general classification level

• class

• order

• genus

• domain