Systematics Flashcards

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Biodiversity

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the variety of life on earth at all its levels, genes to ecosystems, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it

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Taxonomy

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Naming of organisms

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Systematics

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methods to organize and classify organisms into related groups using evolutionary relationships

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phylogeny

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hypothesis to the evolutionary relationships among organisms

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monophyletic group

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includes the most recent common ancestor of the group and all of its descendants (clade)

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paraphyletic group

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includes the most recent common ancestor of the group, but not all its descendants

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Kingdom Fungi

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  • Eukaryotic, multicellular absorbers
  • nonmotile, filamentous
  • lack plastids
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Protists

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  • unicellular, colonial, simple multicellular
  • protozoa, algae, water molds
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Kingdom Plantae

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  • Eukaryotic, multicellular photosynthesizers
  • alternation of generations
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Mitosis

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n -> n
Haploid to haploid
2n -> 2n
Diploid to diploid

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Meiosis

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2n -> n
Diploid to haploid

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Fertilization to form zygote

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n + n = 2n
egg + sperm = zygote

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Mosses

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Gametophyte is dominant, sporophyte is attached to gametophyte

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Ferns

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Sporophyte is dominant, gametophyte is independent of sporophyte

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Gymnosperms

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Sporophyte is dominate, female gametophyte contained within ovulate cone on sporophyte, male gametophyte is dispersed in pollen grain

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angiosperms

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Sporophyte is dominate, female gametophyte contained within ovulate of flower on sporophyte, male gametophyte is dispersed in pollen grain

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what came first chloroplast or mitochondria?

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mitochondria

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Serial endosymbiotic theory

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concept of origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts

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endosymbiont

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an organism that lives within another, dissimilar organism

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Why is it called serial endosymbiosis?

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the events did not occur simultaneously