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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Organisms and environments. The student knows how the taxonomic system is used to describe relationships between organism.

an individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life

an international system used to classify organisms into more and more inclusive groupings; from broadest to most specific: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species