Classification Vocabulary
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1.
Classification
2.
Unicellular
3.
Multicellular
4. Species
5.
Heterotroph
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DEFINITION
The arrangement of organisms into orderly groups based on
their similarities and presumed evolutionary relationships.
Organisms that are made up of only one cell.
Organisms that have many cells
a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals
capable of reproducing
Organisms that do not make their own food, consumers and
decomposers
6. Autotroph Organisms that do make their own food, producers.
7. Prokaryote An organism whose cell do not have a nucleus.
8. Eukaryote
An organism whose cells contain a nucleus
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9. Taxonomy
10.
Dichotomous
Key
DEFINITION
The science of identifying, classifying, and naming living things
A set of steps that help identify an unknown organism
The name that an organism is called by all scientists, it is based
11. Scientific on the organisms Genus and species—also called binomial
nomenclature
Name
12. Domain
The first division of the modern method of classification, this
level contains the most diverse organisms
A system of naming in which two terms are used to denote a
13. Binomial species of living organism, the first one indicating the genus and
Nomenclature the second the species.