biology-chapter 11 and 13 definitions
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- system of identifying organisms by their genus and species names; the two-word naming scheme developed by Linnaeus
- binomial nomenclature
- subdivision of an era on the geological time scale
- periods
- level below order in the classification system
- family
- field of biology that identifies and classifies organisms
- taxonomy
- major taxonomic group in the plant kingdom and fungi kingdom; equivalent to phylum in other kingdoms
- division
- branching structure taxonomist use to compare relationships between taxa
- phylogenetic tree
- five kingdoms?
- monera, protiest, fungi, plantge, animalia
- how old is the earth?
- about 4.5 billion years old
- tool used for identifying organisms
- dichotomous key
- classification system _______?
- king phillip came over from geneva switzerland
- what is used to tell the age of fossils
- carbon 14
- subdivision of a period on the geological time scale
- epochs
- movement of the earths crystal plates over its molten core
- plate techtonics
- level below kingdom in the classification system
- phylum
- group within a phylum in the classification system
- classes
- broadest, most general group into which all organisms are divided
- kingdom
- level below family in the classification system; a group of closely related species
- genus
- division of classes in the classification system
- orders
- fossilized remains of layered mats of prokaryotic cells and sediment
- stromatolites
- protein and water bubles that look and behave somewhat like cell membranes
- microspheres
- time it takes for half of the atoms in a sample to undergo radioactive decay
- half-life
- hypothesis that the ancestors of mitochondria and chloroplasts were independent aerobic prokaryotes that were engulfed by larger cells
- endosymbiosis
- largest division of time on the geological time scale
- eras