Shared characteristics
What Shared characteristics means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Features that members of a group have in common, so that members of a genus share more features than members of a class.
Features that organisms have in common, which are used to place them into groups.
Topics that use Shared characteristics
- Classification of living organisms (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Archaea
- Binomial nomenclature
- Carl Woese and scientific models
- Changing scientific models
- Comparing cell types
- Eukaryota
- eukaryotic cells
- Evidence for classification
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