Introduction to Taxonomy Flashcards

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The Great Chain of Being

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Early form of taxonomy
Fixed hierarchy of animals (top-humans)
Stated monkeys are monkeys, giraffes are giraffes
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Taxonomic Levels

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Created by Carl Linnaeus
taxonomic ranks based on characteristics (gets more specific)

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Taxonomic Levels name

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King Philp Came Over For Green Spaghetti
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, spececies

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Phylogeny

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science of the evolutionary relationship with species
Like large family trees that trace relationship

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Clades

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Groups of clades are in phylogenetic tree
It is a taxonic group that includes the ancestors

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What are the Domains of Life?

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Created by Carl Woose
Created 3 domains: Archaea, bacteria, Eukarya

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Kingdoms

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Bacteria: Eubacteria
Archea: Archea
Eukarya: protista, animaila, fungi, plantae

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Differences of each domain

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Eukyra: membrane-bound, can be multicelled, nucli, more DNA, varied cell wall, hetero/auto and mobile/sat
Atchea: single-celled bacteria (pro), like extreme climates, cell wall, mobile, hetero no peptidoglycan
Bacteria: single-celled (pro), cell wall, mobile and varied auto and hetero, has peptidoglycan

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