Phylogenetics & Classification & Binomial Nomenclature

Question 1

What is classification?

Answer 1

Grouping animals

Question 2

Who devised the classification sytem?

Answer 2

Carl Linnaeus

Question 3

Taxonomic hierarchy

Answer 3

Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Question 4

How many phyla are within the kingdom of Animalia?

Answer 4

35

Question 5

What does phylum Chordata mean?

Answer 5

With a cord (spinal)

Question 6

What are the 3 Domains

Answer 6

Bacteria
Archaea
Eukaryota

Question 7

Kingdom in Bacteria

Answer 7

Eubacteria

Question 8

Kingdom in Archaea

Answer 8

Archaebacteria

Question 9

4 of them

Eukaryota kingdoms

Answer 9

Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia

Question 10

5 of them

Phylum Chordata Classes

Answer 10

Pisces
Amphibia
Reptilia
Aves
Mammalia

Question 11

Hard animals to classify

Answer 11

Platypus
Bats
Echidna
Cetaceans
Legless lizards

Question 12

Why are some animals hard to classify?

Answer 12

They have characteristics that puts them in two+ groups

Question 13

What makes an animal an animal?

Answer 13

Multicellular
Heterotrophic - Eat other things
Respiration
Nervous system
Motility

Question 14

Define heterotrophic

Answer 14

Eat other things (cannot produce its own food)

Question 15

What do phylogenetics trees do?

Answer 15

Shows the relationship between different species. Common ancestors

Question 16

6 things

Evidence for evolution (phylogenetics)

Answer 16

Genetic evidence - Sim/dif in sequences of nucleotides in the DNA
Similarities in chromosomes
Comparative embryology
Similarities in amino acid sequences in proteins
Cell membrane lipid structure
Antibiotic resistance

Question 17

What is Binomial Nomenclature?

Answer 17

Genus & Species
Latin & Greek