Classification & Systematics

Question 0

Cladogram

Answer 0

Branching diagrams showing hierarchies of diagnostic characters

Question 1

Phylogeny

Answer 1

History of the descent of organisms

Question 2

Node

Answer 2

A split point of a cladogram.

Question 3

Monophyletic group (=clade)

Answer 3

Groups that have evolutionary significance because the members of each group are more closely related by genealogy to each other than they are to any other creature

Question 4

Classification

Answer 4

Standardized way of organizing species

Question 5

Binomial nomenclature

Answer 5

Formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts …. Genus then species

Question 6

Carolus Linneaus (1753)

Answer 6

Suggested every organism should be classified with a unique binomial name

Question 7

Species

Answer 7

Basic unit of classification

Question 8

Systematics

Answer 8

Back mapping the phylogenetic tree for an organisms evolutionary pathway

Question 9

Synapomorphy

Answer 9

Trait that is shared by two or more taxa and inferred to have been present in their most recent common ancestor, whose own ancestor in then is inferred to not possess the trait

Question 10

Convergence

Answer 10

Independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages