What are the 7 levels of classification in order from largest to smallest?
kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
A step-by-step way to identify an organism using paired descriptions.
Dichotomous Key
Name the two Kingdoms that have no nucleus
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria
What is the broadest (largest) level of classification?
kingdom
Developed classification based on structural similarities
Carolus Linneaus
Kingdom that can make their own food via photosynthesis
Plant
The evolutionary history of a species
Phylogeny
Hardest Kingdom to classify, nicknamed junk drawer
Protists
What is the category that contains many similar class?
Phylum
Who developed the first recognized system of classification?
Aristotle
Name a difference between plants and fungi OR 2 examples of each.
plants are autotrophs, fungi are heterotrophs;
Which taxon includes only organisms that can successfully interbreed?
Species.
Kingdom that lives in the most extreme conditions, most environments are oxygen-free, prokaryotic
Archaebacteria
What does a fanlike diagram show that a cladogram does not?
Relative number of species in each group