Taxonomy
Across
- 2. The structure and form of an organism or one of its parts
- 4. The action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics.
- 7. a method of classification of animals and plants according to the proportion of measurable characteristics that they have in common.
- 9. the structure and form of an organism or one part of its body
- 11. The branch of science concerned with the classification of organisms
- 13. first to use latin for naming. One hyphen
- 15. second most specific
- 16. The evolutionary history of a species
- 17. An important scientific tool used to identify different organisms, based on the organism's observable traits. There is a hyphen
- 18. third most specidic
- 19. Described organisms by their structure. hyphen
Down
- 1. The broadest of all taxa and contains one or more kingdoms
- 3. third least specific
- 5. a biologist that groups organisms into categories.
- 6. The system of nomenclature in which two terms are used to denote a species of a living organism, the first one indicating the genus and the second the specific epithet. There is a hyphen
- 7. A branching diagram showing the cladistic relationship between a number of species.
- 8. The man that developed the first widely accepted classification system
- 10. second least specific
- 12. in the middle of the taxon hiearchy
- 14. A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.