Answer:
1. Genus
2. Common ancestor
3. Synapomorphies
4. The system is called binomial nomenclature, and the specific categories used are genus and species.
5. The scientist could use a phylogenetic tree to help visualize the evolutionary relationship.
6. One clade is differentiated from another clade by a branching point within the phylogenetic tree that's defined by some character or characters.
7. Since cladistics depict an evolutionary relationship between organisms, the traits that are studied and categorized are homologous traits.
8. DNA sequencing is the technological development that allowed scientists to gain a more complete understanding of the relationships between species.