Classification

Eubacteria

A bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. The group comprises the "true" bacteria and cyanobacteria, as distinct from archaebacteria.

Claudogram

A branching diagram showing the cladistic relationship between a number of species.

Phylum

A principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom.

Protists

A protist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, plant or fungus. The protists do not form a natural group, or clade, since they exclude certain eukaryotes

Binomial

A two-part name, especially the Latin name of a species of living organism (consisting of the genus followed by the specific epithet).

Heterotrophs

An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

Fungi

Any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

Archaebacteria

Archaea constitute a domain of single-celled microorganisms. These microbes are prokaryotes, meaning they have no cell nucleus. Archaea were initially classified as bacteria, receiving the name archaebacteria, but this classification is outdated.

3 domains

Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya

Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".

Traits

Character is a feature of an organism

DNA Classification.

Classification of organisms into closely related species, then more distant genuses, phyla and kingdoms was originally done on the basis of how similar organisms were in form.

Unicellular

Consisting of a single cell.

Eukarya

Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have a nucleus enclosed within membranes, unlike prokaryotes. Eukaryotes belong to the domain Eukaryota or Eukarya.

Multi-cellular

Having or consisting of many cells.

Monera

Monera is a kingdom that contains unicellular organisms with a prokaryotic cell organization, such as bacteria. They are single-celled organisms with no true nuclear membrane. The taxon Monera was first proposed as a phylum by Ernst Haeckel in 1866

Nomenclature

Nomenclature is a system of names or terms, or the rules for forming these terms in a particular field of arts or sciences

Derived characters

One that evolved in the lineage leading up to a clade and that sets members of that clade apart from other individuals.

6 kingdoms

Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria.

Photosynthetic

Relating to or involved in the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water.

Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics

Phylogeny

The branch of biology that deals with phylogenesis.