Lecture 2: Taxonomy/Systematics - Conservation Management

Question 1

True or False: The major contemporary biodiversity problem is the poor/incomplete knowledge of biodiversity itself

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What are the two important things to know in regards of biodiversity?

Answer 2

First know that the species EXISTS

Know that the plant spp. grows in a certain geographical area

Question 3

How would you go about controlling a invasive species?

Answer 3

one has to know first that that invasive sp. occurs in a certain geographical area. How it could be controlled otherwise?

Question 4

True or False: Taxonomy is part of the cognitive process

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What is taxonomy?

Answer 5

Given a collection of objects, living organisms, information or other cognitive elements, taxonomy involves their:

1. Defining and Naming
2. Description
3. Classification

Question 6

The _____ is what all taxonomies have in common.

Answer 6

The Hierarchy

Question 7

What are the 3 species concepts?

Answer 7

Morphological species concept
Biological concept
Evolutionary concept

Question 8

______ concept was that there are morphologically distinct entities, ie. Linneaus

Answer 8

Morphological

Question 9

_____ concept are reproductively isolated entities

Answer 9

Biological

Question 10

_____ concept suggests species have evolving lineages.

Answer 10

Evolutionary

Question 11

True or False: Evolution was very slowly incorporated into the species concept

Answer 11

True

Question 12

A _______ species is defined as one that includes its most recent common ancestor and all of its descendants.

Answer 12

monophyletic

Question 13

What are the 3 parts in the binomial naming system?

Answer 13

Genus, Specific epithet and Initial of author who first discovered it

Question 14

True or False: The success of his system was due to the simplicity of the binomials names and “sexual method” he proposed for the classification of plants.

Answer 14

True,

Stamens = “bridegrooms”
Gynoecium = “bride”
Flower = “nuptial chamber”

Question 15

True or False: According to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, each taxon can have only one correct name.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or False: Each species name must be accompanied/ defined by a type specimen.

Answer 16

True

The type specimen is usually a herbarium specimen that accompanies the description of a new species.

Question 17

True or False: In the last step, The correct name is established using the priority of publication

Answer 17

True

Question 18

What are the 6 taxonomic ranks

Answer 18

King David Came Over For Great Spaghetti

Kingdom
Domain
Class 
Order 
Family 
Genus
Species