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Chapter 28: How We Classify Organisms


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Chapter 28: How We Classify Organisms

p. 560: genera (singular, genus,) taxonomists, systematists, taxonomy, systematics, polynomial, species, binomial

p. 562: hierarchy, taxonomic system, families, orders, classes, phyla (singular, phylum,) divisions, kingdoms, taxon, hierarchical

p. 563 : outcross, asexual reproduction

p. 564: numerical taxonomy, phenetics, analogous, homologous

p. 565: cladistics, derived characters, cladogram

p. 566: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, domains

p. 567: methanogens, extreme thermophiles, extreme halophiles

p. 569: endosymbiosis

p. 570: multicellularity, colonial

p. 571: sexuality, syngamy, meiosis, zygotic meiosis, gametic meiosis, alternation of gemerations, sporic meiosis

 

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