Organizing Information About Species

Taxonomy

Science of classifying organisms

Linnaeus

Who developed the idea of taxonomy

Binomial Nomenclature

system of giving two names to an organism

Scientific name

genus and species

Latin

What language is binomial nomenclature based on

Systematics

The analytical study of relationships between organisms both current and extinct

Extant

currently exist on earth

Carl Woese

who developed domains

Bacteria, Archae, Eukarya

What are the three domains?

Robert Whittaker

who developed a five kingdom system?

Six

How many kingdoms are accepted today?

Phylogeny

Evolutionary history of a species or group of related species

cladistics

method of grouping based upon shared characters

Cladogram

diagram showing evolutionary relationships

Clade

group of species which share a set of characters

Monophyletic

composed of ancestor and all descendants