Biodiversity - Quiz 1 Flashcards
What is taxonomy?
Identifying, naming and classifying of organisms into species
Definition of “species”
Group of organisms that can interbreed and produce offspring
Whats a Eukaryotic Cell
A cell which contains a true nucleus
What’s a prokaryotic cell?
A cell that doesn’t have a true nucleus
Definition of a protist
A eukaryotic organism, usually unicellular and it’s not a plant, animal or fungus
Phylogenetic Species Concept
Defining species based on evolutionary relationships among organisms
Plants
They’re multicellular photosynthetic eukaryotic (having cellulose based cell walls)
Morphological Species Concept
Defining species based on body shape and size
Hierarchical Classification
Arranging organisms from most complex to least complex
Heterotrophs
An organism that gets its energy from consuming other organisms
Fungi
Heterotrophic eukaryotic organism
cell walls contain chitin
Dichotomous Key
A tool used to classify organisms through a series of dichotomous questions
Biological Species Concept
defines species based on the ability for the organisms to produce fertile offspring
Binomial Nomenclature
a standardized way to name species
bacteria
a individual prokaryotic cell
