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What is biodiversity?

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A measure of the variety of living organisms and their genetic differences

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What are the 8 levels of classification?

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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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Why do we classify?

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To have an internationally recognised way to refer to any particular living organism and understand how different types of living organisms are related to each other

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What is taxonomy?

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The science of describing, classifying and naming organisms

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What are the 3 domains?

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Archaea, Bacteria, Eukaryota

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What are the 5 kingdoms and what does kingdom mean?

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Animal, Plant, Fungi, Protist, Prokaryote
-a large group of organisms with few characteristics in common

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What is a species?

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A group of organisms that freely interbreed to produce fertile offspring and where genes can flow between the organisms
-a small group of organisms with lots of characteristics in common

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What is a breed?

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A group of animals of the same species that have different characteristics that make them different to other members of that species

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What is a variety?

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A group of plants of the same species that have different characteristics that make them different to other members of that species

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How do you use the binomial system?

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-The first name is the genus (uppercase letter)
-The second name is the species (lowercase letter)
-Must be written in italics

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What are the limitations of species models?

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-Finding the evidence is time consuming and expensive to set up a breeding programme
-Many organisms do not reproduce sexually
-Fossil organisms cannot reproduce and
often do not have accessible DNA but they still need to be classified

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Why do we need to identify individual species?

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-Understand the biodiversity of an ecosystem and try to protect it
-Understand evolutionary history
-Work out if a species is pathogenic and may lead to a pandemic
-Test for food contamination

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What is the hierarchy of taxonomy?

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-Consists of a series of groups within groups
-No overlap between groups
-The groups are based on shared features

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What do scientists use to classify?

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-Anatomical/physical features
-Fossil evidence
-Biochemical analysis of proteins
-Biochemical analysis of DNA

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How is new evidence for evolution validated?

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By the scientific community when it is submitted to a scientific journal to be peer reviewed by experts in the field

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What are the characteristics of the bacteria domain?

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-Peptidoglycan in the cell wall
-Membrane lipids
-Ribosomes
-Plasmids
-RNA polymerase
-Some are methogens (produce methane)
-Some conduct chlorophyll based photosynethsis
-No nucleus and no unused sections in genes

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What are the characteristics of the archaea domain?

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-Ribosomes
-RNA polymerase
-Ribosomes sensitive to the diptheria toxin
-Some are methogens
-No nucleus and genes contain unused sections in DNA

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What are the characteristics of the eukaryote domain?

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-Has a nucleus with unused sections in genes
-Membrane organelles
-Membrane lipids
-Ribosomes
-RNA polymerase
-Ribosomes sensitive to the diptheria toxin
-Some conduct chlorophyll based photosynethesis

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What is evolution?

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The process by which different kinds of living organisms are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth

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What is bioinformatics?

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The development of software and computing tools needed to organise and analyse raw biological data

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What are DNA bar codes?

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Looking at short genetic sequences from a part of the genome common to particular groups of organisms

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What is DNA sequencing?

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The process by which the base sequence of all or part of the genome of an organism is worked out

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What is DNA profiling?

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The process by which the non-coding areas of DNA are analysed to identify patterns

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Which models are used to classify species?

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-Ecological species model
-Mate recognition species model
-Genetic species model
-Evolutionary species model

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What is the morphological species concept?

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Looking at the appearance of the organisms and how similar their appearances are

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