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taxonomy
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Discipline of classifying organisms and assigning each organism a universally accepted name
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binomial nomenclature
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Classification system in which each species is assigned a two-part scientific name
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genus
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Group of closely related species, and the first part of the scientific name in binomial nomenclature
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taxon
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Group or level of organization into which organisms are classified
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family
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Group of genera that share many characteristics
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order
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Group of similar families
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class
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Group of similar orders
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phylum
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Group of closely related classes
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kingdom
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Large taxonomic group, consisting of closely related phyla
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phylogeny
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The study of evolutionary relationships among organisms
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evolutionary classification
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Method of grouping organisms together according to their evolutionary history
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derived character
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Characteristic that appears in recent parts of a lineage, but not in its older members
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cladogram
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Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms
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molecular clock
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Model that uses DNA comparisons to estimate the length of time that two species have been evolving independently
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