Ch 17 Classification of Organisms Vocabulary

Kingdom classification containing complex, multicellular organisms that lack a cell wall.

• Eubacteria

• Animalia

• Protista

• Plantae

Domain made up of prokaryotes that are distinguished from other prokaryotes by difference in their genetics and in the makeup of their cell wall.

• Archaea

• Protista

• Bacteria

• Plantae

Kingdom classification made up of prokaryotes that are distinguished from other prokaryotes by difference in their genetics and in the makeup of their cell wall.

• Animalia

• Protista

• ArchaeBacteria

• Plantae

Domain made up of prokaryotes that usually have a cell wal and that usually reproduce by cell division.

• Archaea

• Clade

• Bacteria

• Eukarya

A system for giving each organism a two-word scientific name that consists of the genus name followed by the species name.

• taxonomy

• phylogenetics

• binomial nomenclature

• cladogram

The variety of organisms in a given area, the genetic variation within population, the variety of species in a community, or the variety of communities in an ecosystem.

• taxonomy

• derived character

• division

• biodiversity

A taxonomic grouping that includes only a single ancestor and all of its descendants.

• clade

• cladogram

• cladistics

• phylogenetic diagram

A phylogenetic classification system that uses hsared derived characters and ancestry as the sole criterion for grouping taxa.

• clade

• cladistics

• phylogenetics

• phylogenetic diagram

a diagram that is based on patterns of shared, derived traits and that shows the evolutionary relationships between groups of organisms.

• cladogram

• clade

• phylogenetics

• taxonomy

A taxonomic category containing Orders with common characteristics.

• Genus

• Class

• Order

• Family