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Classifaction Flashcards

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1
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Define “taxonomy”

A

Classifying species into groups based on observed physical characteristics

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List the levels of grouping organisms 8

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  • Domain
  • Kingdom
  • Phylum
  • Class
  • Order
  • Family
  • Genus
  • Species
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What is the usefulness of giving each species a Latin binomal name?

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Scientists can communicate about organisms in a standard way that minimises confusion

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What is the first word in an organism name?

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The genus

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What is the second word in an organism name?

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The species

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What is the problem with the early classification system? 3

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  • Only based on observable phenotypes
  • Scientists don’t agree on relative importance of said phenotypes
  • Even organisms with similar phenotypes may not have similar DNA
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What are the 5 kingdoms?

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  • Prokaryotae
  • Protoctista
  • Fungi
  • Plantae
  • Animalia
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What are the features of the prokaryotae kingdom?

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  • Prokaryotes
  • Unicellular
  • No nucleus
  • Less than 5 micrometres
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Name an example of the prokaryotae kingdom

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Bacteria

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What are the features of the protoctisa kingdom?

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  • Eukaryotic cells
  • Usually live in water
  • Single celled/simple multicellular organisms
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Name an example of the protoctisa kingdom

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Algae

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What are the features of the fungi kingdom?

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  • Eukaryotic cells
  • Chitin cell wall
  • Saprotrophic : absorb substances from dead/decaying organism
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Name 2 examples of the fungi kingdom

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  • Mould

- Yeast

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What are the features of the plantae kingdom?

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  • Eukaryotic
  • Multicellular
  • Cellulose cell walls
  • Can photosynthesise
  • Autotrophic
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Give an example of the plantae kingdom.

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Flowering plants

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What are the features of the animalia kingdom?

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  • Eukaryotic
  • Multicellular
  • No cell walls
  • Heterotrophic
17
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What new system was proposed by Woese?

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  • Three domain system - large superkingdoms above kingdoms in taxonomic hierachy
  • Prokaryotae kingdom was split into Archaea domain and Bacteria domain
  • All other organisms placed in Eukaryota domain
18
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Why were Prokaryoate classified into 2 new domains?

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Molecular phylogeny suggested archaea and bacteria were more distinctly related genetically

19
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What is molecular phylogeny?

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The study of evolutionary relationships and history between groups of organisms by looking at molecules e.g DNA/proteins similarity to see how closely related they are

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