Systematics Flashcards
1
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Systematics
A
Scientific study of biological diversity and its evolutionary history
2
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Taxonomy
A
The science of identifying, naming and classifying species
3
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Classification
A
The orderly arrangement of plants into groups based on observed similarities and differences and the placement of these groups into hierarchy
4
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Ending of Phylum
A
phyta
5
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Ending of Class
A
psida
6
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Ending of Order
A
ales
7
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Phylogeny
A
Evolutionary relationships among organisms
8
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Monophyletic
A
Taxon that contains all the dependancies of a single common ancestral species
9
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Artificial
A
Not monophyletic
~paraphyletic
10
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Homologous
A
Structures that have common origin by not necessarily a common function
11
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Analogous
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Structures that have a similar function and superficial appearance but have a different evolutionary background
