Exam 2- Lab And Class

Question 1

Taxonomy

Answer 1

How we classify life

Question 2

Systematics

Answer 2

Evolutionary histories of organisms

Question 3

Phylogenies

Answer 3

Unifies taxonomy systematics to create evolutionary trees

Question 4

King David Came Over For Great Sushi

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Monophyletic

Answer 5

Ancestor and all its descendant species

Question 6

Paraphyletic

Answer 6

Common ancestor but not all of its descendants

Question 7

Polyphyletic

Answer 7

Group with two or more ancestors that do not include a common ancestor

Question 8

Sister taxa

Answer 8

Organisms that share an immediate ancestor that is not shared by any other group

Question 9

Basal taxon

Answer 9

A lineage evolved early from the root and remains unbranched

Question 10

Analogus Structures

Answer 10

Similar form, different evolutionary background

Question 11

Synapomorphies

Answer 11

Character states that arose from a common ancestor and are present in all members of a monophyletic group

Question 12

Semelparous

Answer 12

Single reproductive event and then dies.

Question 13

Types of dispersal

Answer 13

Clumped, uniform, and random

Question 14

Uniform

Answer 14

Territorial
Alleopathy- plants release chemicals to prevent growth of other plants

Question 15

Limentic zone

Answer 15

Photic zone in open water

Question 16

Thermocline

Answer 16

Boundary between hot and cold water