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level questions: Level 1

Question	Answer
classification system in which each species is assighned a two-part scientific name	Binomial nomenclature
group of closly related species; the first part of the scientific name in binomial nomenclature	Genus
study of the diversity of life and the evolutionary relationship between organisms	Systematics
group or level of organization into which organisms are classified	Taxon
in classification, group of similar genera	Family
in classification, a group of closely related families	Order
in classification, a group of closely related orders	Class
in classification, a group of closely related classes	Phylum
largest and most inclusive group in Linnaean classification	Kingdom
the evolutionary history of a lineage	Phylogeny
evolutionary branch of a cladogram that includes a single ancestor and all its descendants	Clade
group that consists of a single ancestral species and all its descendants and excludes any organisms that are not decended from hat common ancestor	Monophyletic group
diagram depicting patterns of shared characteristics among species	Cladogram
trait that appears in recent parts of a lineage, but not in its older members	Derived character
larger, more inclusive taxonomic category than a kingdom	Domain
domain of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls containing peptidoglycan; corresponds to the kingdom eubacteria	Bacteria
domain consisting of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls that do not contain peptidoglycan; corresponds to the kingdom Arqueabacterias	Archaea
domain consisting of all organisms that have a nucleus; includes protists, plants, fungi, and animals.	Eukarya