Cladograms

why do scientists classify organism?

Answer explanation

Scientists classify organisms to put them into closely related groups to make it easier to study the wide diversity of living things. Also used to see how various organisms evolved to different environments from a common ancestor.

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what are the major problems with common names?

Answer explanation

1. 1. one organism can have many different common names

3. 2. one name is used for multiple different species

5. 3. different languages have different common names

6. 4. common names can be misleading

what are the rules for writing a scientific name (binomial nomenclature)

what are the 8 taxonomic groups, in order?

what can you infer with the word genus

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who are the most closely related

• corn

• whale shark

• humpback whale

• spider monkey

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what species is NOT closely related

• corn

• whale shark

• humpback whale

• spider monkey

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how is the humpback whale and spider monkey closely related?

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how is the corn NOT closely related?

Tradition classification?

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