Taxonomy
A clade includes an ancestor and all of its ___.
What are descendants?
This Kingdom is defined as: simple, unicellular organisms. They often live in very hot or salty environments.
Archaea
Why do scientists like to organize living things?
to help them communicate easier and understand what they are studying
This type of diagram shows how clades are related based on common ancestry.
What is a Cladogram?
What is the process of grouping things based on their similarities? a. Punnett Square b. classification c. taxonomy d. DNA
B - classification
This Kingdom is defined as: Unicellular and more complex than bacteria or archaea.
Protists
Organisms in the same clade share this type of trait inherited from a common ancestor.
What is a homologous trait?
This Kingdom is defined as: Multicellular and make their own food.
Plants
Carolus Linneaus
Who is the creator of the classification system?
What is the two part naming system for classifying animals?
binomial nomenclature
Clades can show evolutionary relationships based on ____, not physical similarities.
What is DNA?
Which Kingdom is the most complex?
Animals
This Kingdom is defined as: simple and unicellular organisms
Place the classification groups in the correct order
What is kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species
How many classification/taxonomy groups are there?
What is 7
If two species are in the same clade, what can you infer about their evolutionary history?
What is they share a common ancestor?
_____ is a group of organisms with similar traits and the ability to produce offspring. a. binomial nomenclature b. species c. genus d. classification
B - species
Genus is capitalized, species is lower case. Italicized or underlined