Taxonomy Vocabulary

A taxonomic category above the kingdom level. The three domains are Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya.

• Scientific Name

• Archaea

• Domain

• Clade

A group of species that includes an ancestral species and all its descendants.

• Cladogram

• Binomial nomenclature

• Clade

• Taxonomy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The name given to each species, consisting of its genus and its species label

• Scientific Name

• Dichotomous Key

• Cladistics

• Binomial Nomenclature

Kingdom composed of heterotrophs; many obtain energy and nutrients from dead organic matter

• Fungi

• Binomial Nomenclature

• Clade

• Parsimony

The scientific study of how living things are classified

• Taxonomy

• Clade

• Scientific Name

• Derived Character

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

• Scientific Name

• Derived Character

• Binomial Nomenclature

• Clade

a key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters

• Clade

• Dichotomous Key

• Binomial Nomenclature

• Parsimony

An approach to systematics in which organisms are placed into groups called clades based primarily on common descent.

• Binomial Nomenclature

• Cladogram

• Cladistics

• Parsimony

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms

• Cladogram

• Scientific Name

• Binomial nomenclature

• Derived Character

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-3