ch 14 pt 2 Flashcards
what does the classification system reflect?
evolutionary history, common descent
Order of the taxonomic groups
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, genus, species
Phylogeny
the evolutionary history of a species or group of related species
Phylogenetics
the study of evolutionary genetics among species
Systematics
the study of classification
Taxonomy
the study of naming and classifying organisms
What species are in the same Domain and Kingdom?
Fly and squid
What species are in the same domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order and family?
Chimpanzee and orangutan
Who introduced a system for grouping species in increasingly broad categories?
Linnaeus
Taxon
a taxanomic unit at any level of hierarchy
Phylogenetic trees
one way systematists depict evolutionary relationships
True or False: phylogenetic trees indicate when species evolved and how much change occurred in lineage
false
Should it be assumed that a taxon evolved from the taxon next to it?
No
What is the most useful way to construct the phylogeny?
Cladistic approach
What are the three things phylogeny uses information about?
Morphologies, genes, and biochemistry
Homologies
Phenotypic and genetic similarities due to shared ancestry
Molecular homoplasies are a
coincidence
Molecular systematics
uses DNA and other molecular data to determine evolutionary relationships
Clade
a group of species that includes an ancestral species and all its descendants
Monophyletic
when a clade is valid, signifies that it consists of the ancestor species and all its descendants
Shared derived character
an evolutionary novelty unique to a particular clade
Shared ancestral character
a character that originated in an ancestor of the taxon
When inferring evolutionary relationships, what is useful to know?
in which clade a shared derived character first appeared
What does the best hypotheses consist of?
fits the most morphological, molecular and fossil data