Taxonomy

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