17.1 Terms Game
Biology Science Studying Game
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- Classification
- The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
- Taxonomy
- Study of the general principles of scientific classification
- Binomial Nomenclature
- Classification system in which each species is assigned a two-part scientific name
- Genus
- Taxonomic group containing one or more species
- Specific Epithet
- The second part of a binomial, it refers to one species within a genus.
- Family
- A taxonomic group containing one or more genera
- Order
- Taxonomic group containing one or more families
- Class
- A taxonomic group containing one or more orders
- Phylum
- The major taxonomic group of animals and plants
- Division
- A group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- Kingdom
- One of seven biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia