Plant Taxonomy

Classification and Naming of Plants

Another term for Plant Taxonomy

Swedish Biologist and Founder of Taxonomy

Taxonomy Nomenclature Using 2 Names including Genus and Species

Taxonomic Rank above Species

Hierarchy: Kingdom, Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

Top Category above Kingdom in some Taxonomy Tables that includes all organisms with Eukaryotic Cells

Cells with a Nucleus, which are all Plants, all Animals and Humans

Scientific Society disseminating Linnaeus' ideas about Taxonomy

A Linnean Concept indicating that groups of Species that share common traits descend from a common lineage

Charles Darwin's Grandfather who was a Member of the Linnean Society and embraced the concept of Homology

A Cabbridge-trained Scientist who like his Grandfather, embraced Homology but went further with the understanding of how new species form throught natural selection as described in his 1859 Book, "On The Origin of Species"

Process favoring the survival and reproduction of advantageous traits

A German Scientist who discovered that inheritance is driven by discreet trait-transmitting units called "genes" and organisms have 2 sets of genes, one inherited from the Mother and one inherited from the Father

A variant form of a gene that can be inherited form each parent

The one that is expressed over the other

Relates to the observable traits of an organism

Bases its classification of Plants on molecular evidence to study evolutionary relationships among organisms

Study of Biological activities at the Molecular level

A Division of Plants that includes Conifers and Cycads (Palm Trees)

A Division of Plants that includes all of the Flowering Plants

A natural Phylogenetic (see Phylogeny Card) group of organisms that share a common ancestor and all of its decendants.

A Clade (group) of Plants with unprotected 'naked seeds' that includes Conifers and Cycads (Palm Trees).

A Clade (group) of Flowering Plants with protected Seeds that are enclosed within a fruit.

Seed Plants like Gymnosprms and Angiosperms

Plants with specialized cells for water and nutrient transport including Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

Land Plants like Gymnosperns and Angiosperms that produce Embryos, which are young sporophytic (asexual) plants within their seed

A Super Division in a more inclusive Plant Taxonomy as it is a Clade that includes both unicellular and multicellular organisms including all of the Land Plants and all of the Green Algae except Chlorophyta

Vascular, Seedless Plants like Ferns, some Mosses and Horsetails

Non Vascular, Seedless Plants like some Mosses and Liverworts

Flowering Plants (Angiosperms) with one embryonic leaf, parallel leaf veins, and petals in threes

Flowering Plants (Angiosperms) with two embryonic leaves and branched leaf veigns

A Group of related Families

Relies on both the vegetativeand reproductive characteristics of plant species to derive the Family Name

A group able to breed amongst themselves and bearing mutal resemblance