TAXONOMY-------Extra Vocabulary
1. Taxon- Any group or rank in a biological classification into which related
________________are classified
Examples:______________,_________________,________________
2. Clade- a __________ of _________________ (usually species) that are more closely
___________ to each other than any other ____________, implying a shared most
____________ common ______________.
3. Cladistics-A system of classification based on the __________________
______________________and ____________________
______________ of groups of
organisms.
4. The ___________________ __________________of a ______________ or of
a___________________ group of _________________________.
5. Phylogenic Tree- A diagram showing evolutionary
__________________of organisms.
6. Common Ancestor- the ______________ _____________ancestral form or species from
which two different species ______________.
7. Derived characteristic- ___________ that arose in the most recent common ancestor of a
particular lineage and was ___________ along to its ____________________.
8. Morphology- the branch of biology dealing with the ___________and ______________ of
organisms.