Unit 8: Taxonomy Vocabulary

An organism that makes its own food

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• binomial nomenclature

• dichotomous key

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Classification system in which each species is assigned a two-part scientific name

• cladogram

• binomial nomenclature

• cladistics

• taxonomy

an aid that is used to identify organisms and that consists of the answers to a series of questions

• taxonomy

• binomial nomenclature

• dichotomous key

• phylogenetic tree

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

• binomial nomeclature

• cladistics

• taxonomy

• cladogram

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

group or level of organization into which organisms are classified

• cladogram

• taxon

• binomial nomenclature

• cladistics

Organisms that get energy from chemicals taken from the environment

• autotrophs

• chemotrophs

• taxonomy

• heterotrophs

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a system of scientific taxonomy used to categorize organisms into subgroups (taxons) within larger groups

• binomial nomenclature

• dichotomous key

• hierarchical classifaction

• taxonomy

A group organized by rank

• taxon

• cladogram

• binomial nomenclature

• hierarchy

The name given to each species, consisting of its genus and its species label

• taxon

• scientific name

• binomial nomenclature

• dichotomous key

A family tree that shows the evolutionary relationships thought to exist among groups of organisms

• cladogram

• cladistics

• phylogenetic

  tree

• dichotomous key

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2