species
- Created by: charlotte
- Created on: 25-02-13 18:56
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- species
- defenition
- a group of orgamsims which share a large number of common characterlistics and which can interbreed to produce fertile offspring
- morphological features
- physiological features
- biochemical features
- behavioural features
- a group of orgamsims which share a large number of common characterlistics and which can interbreed to produce fertile offspring
- how many?
- on earth there is about 2 million different species
- hierarchy classification system
- devised to distinguish large groups of organisms with a series of rank names to identify different levels within the system
- kingdom - phylum----class-------------order------------family-----------species
- taxon
- a level in the classification system consisting of organisms sharing same basic features
- binomial naming system
- universal naming system used by all scientists to name organisms. the genus name is first
- defenition
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