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The term refering to putting organisms into categories to show degrees of similitaries
taxonomy
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The study of the evolutionary history of organisms
Systematics, or phylogeny
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What are the three kingdoms of the domain Eukarya?
Animals, Plants and Fungi
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What is included in the Domain Bacteria?
All pathogenic prokaryotes as well as many of the nonpathogenic prokaryotes.
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What does the Domain Archaea inlcude?
prokaryotes that do not have peptidoglycan in their cell walls.
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for evolution, is based on nucleotide sequences in the genomes of organisms
Molecular clock
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the system that gives two names to each organism
binomial nomenclature
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family
a group made up of genera
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order
groups of similar families
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class
groups of similar orders
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phylum
groups of related classes
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kingdom
groups of phyla that are related to each other
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domain
groups of related kingdoms
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difined as a population of cells with similar charchteristics
Prokaryotic species
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A pure culture that is a population of cells with similar charachteristics
clone
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A group identified by numbers, letters or names that follow the specific epithet
Strain
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Simple eukaryotic organims, mostly unicellular
protista
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The organisms once classified as protists are being divided into this group, those that are genetically related
clades
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This kingdom includes all mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants
Plantae
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The kingdom of multicellular organisms includes sponges, various worms, insects and animas with backbones
Animalia
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A population of ciruses with similar charachteristics, that occupies a particular ecological niche.
Viral species
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Trophozite
The vegetative form of a protozoan
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Schizogony
The process of multiple fission, in which one organism divides to produce many daughter cells
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Vector
an anthropod that carries disease causing organisms from one host to another
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STD
infection with Trichomonas vaginalis and is called Trichomoniasis
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Dysentary
A disease charachterized by frequent, watery stools containing blood and mucous
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Formite
A nonliving object that can spread infection
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Conjugation
The transfer of genetic material from one cell to another involving cell-to-cell contact
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Parisitism
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism (the parasite) exploits another (the host) w/out providing any benefit in return
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Commensalism
A sybmiotic relationship in which two organisms live in associatin and one is benefiited while the other is neither benefited nor harmed
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Mutualism
A type of symbiosis in which both organisms or populations benefit
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