Classification

Question 0

What is taxonomy?

Answer 0

A system if organization, categories are called taxa

Question 1

Who grouped species together by their looks in large groups called genera?

Answer 1

Carolina Linnaeus

Question 2

List order of taxonomy

Answer 2

Kingdoms, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Question 3

Rules of binomial nomenclature

Answer 3

• every genus and species name must be unique

- genus name capitalized, species in lower case (and in italics or underlined)

Question 4

Modern classification

Answer 4

Another term for cladistics

Question 5

Define a clade

Answer 5

A group of a common ancestor and all of it’s descendants