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Read Chapter 17 and answer the following questions:

1) How are modern classification systems similar to and different from the Linnaean system? 

2) What information is displayed in a phylogenetic diagram?

3) How do scientists create cladograms?

4) What characteristics distinguish the domains of Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya?

5) Why are some taxa difficult to classify?

6) Why do scientists continue to change taxonomic systems?