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This taxonomy level comes after Order.
Family
Known as the Tree of Life, it shows the evolutionary relationships between groups of organsims.
Phylogenic Tree
The science of classifying organisms
Taxonomy
He created the first taxonomy system.
Aristotle
This taxonomy level comes after Phylum.
Class
This domain includes Kingdom Animalia.
Eukarya
The process of two similar species becoming more different
Divergence
The eight classification groups of taxonomy
Taxa
His research led to the creation of a third domain (Archaea).
Carl Woese
This domain includes Archaebacteria.
Archaea
This Kingdom has cell walls with peptidoglycan
Eubacteria
This shows the special creation of each kind and the species that arrive from each kind.
Orchard of Life
A group of organisms with similar characteristics that are capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring
Species
He suggested that the Protist kingdom could be split into two.
Tom Cavalier-Smith
This Kingdom has cell walls made of chitin
Fungi
This kingdom is heterotrophic and could be unicellular or multicellular.
Fungi
A view of classification that seeks to group living things according to a biblical worldview.
Baraminology
The system Linnaeus invented to help categorize living things.
Binomial Nomenclature
He proposed a third kingdom to include organisms he observed under a microscope.
Ernst Haeckel
An example of an organism in this Kingdom is moss.
Plantae
An example of organisms in this kingdom are Diatoms.
Chromista
The two parts of systematics.
Phylogeny and Cladistics
When writing a scientific name what three parts are necessary.
Capital first letter in Genus, Lowercase first letter in species, and Italics (if printed)/Underlined (if written)
He made a 4th kingdom by removing bacteria from the protist kingdom.
Herbert Copeland
An example of an organism in this kingdom are methanogens.
Archeabacteria