front 1 Taxonomy | back 1 the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms |
front 2 Binomial Nomenclature | back 2 the system of nomenclature in which two terms are used to denote a species of living organism, the first one indicating the genus and the second the species |
front 3 Archae | back 3 Kingdom where a group of micro-organisms that are similar to, but evolutionarily distinct from bacteria |
front 4 Diversity | back 4 all of the variety of life that exists on Earth |
front 5 Taxa | back 5 a taxonomic group of any rank, such as a species, family, or class |
front 6 Biogeography | back 6 the branch of biology that deals with the geographical distribution of plants and animals |
front 7 Homology | back 7 similarities caused by shared ancestry between two structures or genes |
front 8 Directional Selection | back 8 a mode of natural selection in which a single phenotype is favored, causing the allele frequency to continuously shift in one direction |
front 9 Recombination | back 9 the rearrangement of genetic material, especially by crossing over in chromosomes or by the artificial joining of segments of DNA from different organisms |
front 10 Phylogenetic | back 10 relating to the evolutionary development and diversification of a species or group of organisms |
front 11 Disruptive Selection | back 11 when the variance of a trait in the population increases |
front 12 Cladogram | back 12 type of diagram that shows hypothetical relationships between groups of organisms |
front 13 Artificial Selection | back 13 reproduction is controlled by humans |
front 14 Gene Flow | back 14 the process of alleles moving from one population to another |