Classification

Question 1

What is classification?

Answer 1

Process of placing living things into groups that have a hierarchy and no overlaps

Question 2

What is artificial classification?

Answer 2

When organisms are grouped based off of analogous characteristics (same function but different evolutionary origin)

Question 3

What is phylogenetic classification?

Answer 3

When organisms are grouped based off of homologous characteristics (same evolutionary origin, regardless of function) and evolutionary relationships with ancestors

Question 4

What are the taxonomic groups in order?

Answer 4

Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus species

Question 5

How are organisms named?

Answer 5

Through the binomial naming system, which uses their latin name for the genus and species

Question 6

What are the three domains?

Answer 6

Bacteria, archaea and eukarya

Question 7

What is phylogeny?

Answer 7

A study of evolutionary relationships between species and how closely related they are