Lab practical #2 Flashcards
What are we observing be passed from parent to offspring in our fast plant experiment?
Color of the stems
What is taxonomy?
Name and classification of organism
who popularized the style of taxonomy that we still use today?
Carl Linnaeus
What two systems did he use in this style of taxonomy?
Hierarchy and Binomial nomenclature
what is the taxonomic hierarchy in order?
Domain, Kingdom phylum, class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
What are the two words that make up a species name?
Genus and Specific epithet
What is the definition if phylogeny?
The evolutionary history of a species or group relates species
Give an example of a Homologous trait between two organism
Wings of a bat Vs. wings of a bird
Give an example of an analogous trait between two organism
Wings of a bat Vs. wings of a Insect
Label what the arrows are pointing at on this cladogram
LOOK AT NOTES!!!
what kind of group is represented by this cladogram?
Include Aves to Reptilia
Monophyletic
What is important about this group?
The only group that is recognized in Biology
What type of group is represented by this group? Taking birds from class reptilia
Paraphyletic
What type of group is represented by this cladogram?
Mammalia and aves
Polyphyletic
PROKARYOTIC VS. EUKARYOTIC
Prokaryotic
Circular DNA, Bacteria and Archaea, No nucleus, No unit membrane bound organelles, smaller cells
Eukaryotic
Nucleus, Larger cell, Double stranded Helix DNA, Protist, animals, Plants fungi
There are more bacterial cells living on your body than there are total number of cells, that make up-
your body
Give three examples of bacteria being helpful.
- necessary to produce products for food chains
- In medicine some are used as antibiotics
- some bacteria produce limestone and are being used in self healing concrete
What is the basis of antibiotics resistance in pathogenic bacteria as well as the evolution of prokaryotes?
Recombination (Horizontal Gene Transfer)
Why was the Kingdom Monera split into two distinct domains (Bacteria and Archaea)
RNA sequencing technology
What are the archaeabacteria called in the prismatic springs at Yellowstone
Thermophiles
Describe one other extremophile
Cyanobacteria
What is important about this group of bacteria?
The ancestors of chloroplast
Which group of bacteria include E.coli, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, Black Plague, and Lyme disease?
Proteobacteria
What group of bacteria can be found in soil, used to make anti biotic, and also include staphylococcus sp., streptococcus sp., tetanus, botulism and gangrene?
Gram positive bacteria
What are the three main bacteria shapes?
Spirals- spirilli, cocci-spherical, Rods- Bacilli
What is a protist?
A eukaryotic organism that is not a plant, animal, or fungus
What phylum and common name does this protist belong to? (red algae)
Rhodophyta (Red algae)
What is important about this phylum of protist in question 16? (red algae)
Ancestor of modern plants
What phylum does this protist belong to?
blue sphere with tail
Euglenophyta
What phylum and common name does this protist belong to?
shells
Bacillariophyta (diatoms)