Lesson 5: Classification and Phylogeny Of Animals

Question 1

The practice of categorizing organisms according to similar features goes back to?

Answer 1

Aristotle

Question 2

The goal of Taxonomy today is to produce a formal system for naming and classifying species to?

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To illustrate their evolutionary relationships

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• the taxonomist asks whether the species being classified contains the defining feature of a certain taxonomic group.
• Focus is on features

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Classification

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• the taxonomist asks whether the characteristics of a species support the hypothesis that it descends from the most recent common ancestor of the taxonomic group.
• focus is on the evolutionary origin of those features.

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Systematization

Question 5

He designed the hierarchical classification system in the 18th Century that is still in use today.

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Carolus Linnaeus

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The major groups of organisms.

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Taxa

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Singular form of Taxa

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Taxon

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The system Carolus Linnaeus developed for naming species.

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Binomial Nomenclature

Question 9

The two part scientific name includes

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Genus and species

Question 10

The goal of ________ is to determine the ___________

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Systematics, Phylogeny

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The evolutionary history of species or group of related species.

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Phylogeny

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• Phylogenies are inferred by identifying organismal features, characters, that vary among species.
• These characters can be:

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• Morphological (Physical)
• Chromosomal (DNA)
• Molecular (Cellular Level)
• Behaviour or Ecological
• Homology

Question 13

Shared characters that result from common ancestry.

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Homologous characters

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• Shared characters that are not a result of common ancestry but of independent evolution of similar characters (not homologous).
• Can result from convergent evolution.

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Homoplasies

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Occurs when natural selection, working under similar environmental pressures, produces similar (analogous) adaptations in organisms from different evolutionary lineages.

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Convergent Evolution

Question 16

When trying to determine evolutionary relationship (inferring Phylogeny), we only want to consider ______________, because _______ can create errors.

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Homologous Character, Homoplasies

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• Is a homologous structure that is older than the branching of a particular clade from other members of that clade.
• Shared by more than just the taxon we are trying to define.

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Shared primitive character

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• A new evolutionary feature, unique to a particular group.
• These are the features that are most useful for determining evolutionary relationships.

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Shared derived character

Question 19

• _______ is a form of character that was present in the common ancestor of the group.
• Variations of the character that arose later are called _______

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Ancestral character state

Derived character states

Question 20

_______ (which version of that trait is ancestral) is determined by using outgroup comparison

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Polarity

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Is closely related, but not part of the group being examined (ingroup).

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Outgroup

Question 22

Found in both the study group and the outgroup.

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Ancestral character

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Found in the study groups but not the outgroups.

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Derived character

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Groups that share derived characters and form a subset within a larger group.

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Clades

Question 25

Unit of common evolutionary descent.

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Clade

Question 26

A derived character that is shared by all the members of the clade.

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Synapomorphy

Question 27

Using ___________ to define clades will result in a ________

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Synapomorphies, nested hierarchy of clades.

Question 28

Ancestral character states for a taxon are called ______

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Plesiomorphic

Question 29

___________ are shared ancestral characters.

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Symplesiomorphies

Question 30

Do not provide useful information for forming a nested series of clades.

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Symplesiomorphies

Question 31

The nested hierarchy of clades can be shown as a _________ that is based on ____________.

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Cladogram, Synapomorphies

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A valid clade that consists of the ancestor species and all its descendants.

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Monophyletic

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A clade consists of an ancestral species and some, but not all of the descendants.

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Paraphyletic

Question 34

A clade includes many species that lack a common ancestor.

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Polyphyletic

Question 35

The two theories of Taxonomy

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Cladistics and Evolutionary Taxonomy

Question 36

Cladistics, also called as ____________, is a taxonomic theory that is based on cladograms.

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Phylogenetic Systematics

Question 37

All taxa must be…

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Monophyletic

Question 38

• Based on common descent and the amount of evolutionary change to rank higher taxa.
• Sometimes this type of classification includes paraphyletic groupings.

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Traditional Evolutionary Taxonomy

Question 39

Humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans are now all included together in one monophyletic family called _______

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Hominidae

Question 40

Pair of Taxa that are most closely related to each other.

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Sister Group

Question 41

What is the important difference between Cladistics and Evolutionary Taxonomy?

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Traditional Evolutionary Taxonomy sometimes accepts paraphyletic ideas, while Cladistics does not.

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What are the similarities between Cladistics and Evolutionary Taxonomy?

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• Both accept monophyletic clades.
• Both reject polyphyletic clades