Chapter 17 Flashcards

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What did Linnaeus use to classify plants and animals?

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Morphology and behavior.

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Who developed the first accepted biological classification system?

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Aristotle

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What uses Latin genus and specific epithet to give organisms a scientific name?

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Binomial nomenclature

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How are organisms classified?

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A nested hierarchical system.

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Has the definition of species changed over time?

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Yes

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What is phylogeny?

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Evolutionary History of a species from evidence for which comes from studies

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What is a molecular clock?

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It uses comparisons of DNA sequences to estimate physiology and rate of evolutionary change.

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What are the three domains?

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Bacteria, archaea, eukarya,

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What are the five kingdoms and their domains?

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Bacteria- eubacteria
Archaea- archaebacteria
Eukarya- Protista,fungi,plante,animalia.

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Define chapter 17 vocab And read

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484-503

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