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What is taxonomy?

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The scientific study of naming, classifying and defining groups of organisms based on shared characteristics

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What is the hierarchy of taxa?

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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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What is binomial nomenclature?

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The system of naming organisms in which two terms are used to denote a species

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What are rules of a genus and species

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  • genus is capitalized
  • genus can be abbreviated
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Why are binomial names used?

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Because they are in latin, it is a dead language which doesnt change and is universal.

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What are the 3 domains of life?

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Eubacteria
Archaea
Eukaryota

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Which domains reproduce asexually?

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All three, Eukaryota is usually sexual

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Which domain has a unique metabolism?

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Eubacteria

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Which domains are unicellular?

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Arachaea and Eubacteria

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Differentiate the types of chromosomes between the 3 domains

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Single and circular:
Eubacteria, Archaea

Multiple and linear:
Eubacteria

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What are all the kingdoms of life?

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Eubacteria, Archaea, Protista, Plantae. Fungi, Animalia

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All of which kingdoms are autotrophic?

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Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Animalia

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What kingdom are algae in?

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Protista

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What kingdoms have only a cell wall?

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Animalia, Eubacteria, Protista

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Name the different plant phyla.

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Angiospermophyta, Filicinophyta, Coniferophyta, Bryophyta

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Explain what types of leaves all the plant phyla have.

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Angiospermophyta: variety
Filicinophyta: fronds
Coniferophyta: needles
Bryophyta: simple

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Explain what types of stems all the plant phyla have.

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Angiospermophyta: woody trunks/herbacious
Filicinophyta: underground
Coniferophyta: woody trunk
Bryophyta: simple

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What type of stems do conifers have?

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Shallow and not extensive

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What type of roots do angiospermophyta have?

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Tap and fiborous

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What type of roots to mosses have?

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They do not have any, they have rhizoids

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Reproductive structures of all the plant phyla

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Angiospermophyta: Seeds in fruit
Filicinophyta: naked seeds
Coniferophyta: spores
Bryophyta: spores

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Name all of the animal phyla.

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Porifera, Platyhelminthes, Anellida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Chordata, Cnidaria

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What are cnidaria?

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Corals and jelly fish

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What are platyhelminthes?

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Tapeworms:
flattened body, parasidic

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Which animal phyla do not have an anus?
Platyhelminthes, Porifera, Cnidaria
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Which animal phyla dont have a mouth?
Porifera
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Which animal phyla dont have any symmetry?
Porifera
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Which animal phyla have radial symmetry?
Cnidaria
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Explain the animal phyla annelida.
Ring worms, earthworms, leeches They body consists of ringed segments, tubular.
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Do vertebrates have a notochord?
no
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What type of nervous system do chordates and vertebrates have?
Chordates: dorsal Vertebrates: Ventral
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Which two vertebrates have external fertilization?
Ray-finned fish and amphibia.
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What are ray-finned fish?
Fish
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Describe the skin of all the vertebrates
Fay finned fish: scales Amphibia: moist Reptilia: keratinous scales Aves: keratinous feathers Mammals: Keratinous hair
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Describe the ventilation of all the vertebrates
fish: gills Amphibia: simple lungs and gas exchange via skin Reptilia: lungs with many folds Aves: Lungs with sacs Mammals: lungs
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All vertebrates have 4 limbs except 1, which is it?
Ray finned dish
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What is an autotroph?
An organism which makes its own food through light water and co2. They are referred to as producers as they make their own food
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What are heterotrophs?
Organisms which obtain its nutrients from other living organisms via feeding.
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What are the different types of heterotrophs?
Saprotrophs Detriovores Consumers
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What are detriovores?
Organisms which obtain organic nutrients from detrius via internal digestion
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What are saprotrophs?
Organisms which obtain nutrients from dead organisms via external digestion.
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All of what heat is eventually lost from teh ecosystem?
- feces - heat released from cellular respiration - biomass not eaten
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What is the level of consumer called?
trophic level.
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What is a population?
A group of the same species living together and interacting
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What is a community?
Populations of diferent species living together and interacting
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What is an ecosystem?
Communities interacting with the abiotic environment.
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What is a mesocosm?
Any experimental system that examines the natural environment under controlled conditions.
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Explain features of a mesocosm.
- its a closed system where energy leaves but matter does not - its an enclosed environment that is used to model larger exosystems - can be self sustaining - can be manipulated
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How are atmospheric gases measured?
Thorugh satelites
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Examples of greenhouse gases.
Co2 and methane and CFS's
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What is radiative efficiency?
The ability to absorb longwave radiation
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How is CH4 enhanced?
Via the mining of coal Digestive processes of cattle
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Which greenhouse gas has the highest radiative efficiency?
H20
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What are types of motive sampling?
GPS Mark and recapture Video Camera
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What are the types of sessile sampling methods?
transect quadrant sampling

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