classification systems and species

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what is an artifical classification system?
a system based on the appearance rather than genes
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what is a natural classification system?
a system based on the evolutionary relationships and genetic similarities between organisms
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what is a kingdom?
living things divided into large groups
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what is a Genus?
a closely related species
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what does DNA sequencing do?
allow us to see genetic differences between species
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how is DNA sequencing now possible?
advances in ITC
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what is an evolutionary tree?
defines how closely related species are
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what is a species?
a group of living organisms that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring
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what is asexual reproduction?
an organism that makes a copy of itself
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what is a hybrid?
two different species interbreeding
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what does the bionomial system help achieve?
lets languages over the world know an organism by the same name
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in exam, how would you explain the differences and similarities between species?
explain how they are related in evolutionary terms and the type of environment theyve adapted to survive in
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