Lec 2

Question 1

Edward O. Wilson

Answer 1

famous Harvard entomologist, evolutionary biologist, and behaviorist, that appeared in SCIENCE back in December 1985

Question 2

Taxonomy:

Answer 2

The discovery, recognition, definition, and naming of groups of organisms

Question 3

Systematics:

Answer 3

The study of biological diversity; or, more specifically, the ordering of the diversity of nature through construction of a classification that can serve as a “general reference system

Question 4

Products of systematic research

Answer 4

1. Branching diagrams (i.e., evolutionary trees) 2. Classifications (i.e., species or groups of species placed within named groups

Question 5

Major fish: Myxini:

Answer 5

containing the hagfishes (about 75 species

Question 6

Major fishes : The Cephalaspidomorphi:

Answer 6

the lampreys (about 40 species

Question 7

Major fishes : The Chondrichthyes:

Answer 7

the cartilaginous fishes: sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras (about 970 species

Question 8

Major fishes: Actinopterygii:

Answer 8

the bony or ray-finned fishes (at least 30,900, but no doubt many more

Question 9

Major fishes: The Sarcopterygii:

Answer 9

the lobe-finned fishes, including 2 living species of coelacanths (the crossopterygian genus Latimeria) and 6 species of lungfishes (as well as all tetrapods