classification
organising the variety of life based on relationships between organisms using differences and similarities in phenotype and genotypes
taxonomy
the scientific study of classification
phylogenetic
based on common structures, characteristics and reflecting patterns of evolutionary
molecular phylogeny
how the study of DNA base sequences can help us understand how closely related a different species are.
5 kingdoms
animals, plants, fungi, protoctist and prokaryotes
3 domains
bacteria, archaea and eucarya
bacteria and archaea are prokaryotic and eucarya are eukaryotic.
woese found that archaea are more closely related to eucarya that bacteria