Systematics Based On Evolutionary Relationships ( Cladistics And Phylogeny )

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Types of Diversity

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Genetic Diversity
Species Diversity
Ecosystem Diversity

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Diversity of genes within a species

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Genetic diversity

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Diversity among species in an ecosystem

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Species diversity

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Diversity of a habitat in a given unit area

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Ecosystem diversity

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The most precise and specific measure
of biodiversity is

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Genetic Diversity or genetic variation within a species

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What do genetic diversity/ genetic variation measure of diversity do?

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looks at differences
among individuals within a population

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The term biodiversity Usually refers
to

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Species diversity

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At the broadest most encompassing level.
we have

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Ecosystem diversity

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What does biologists look at the many types of

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Functional units formed by living
communities interacting with their
environments.

Question 10

Diversity may be measured at different scales. These are
three indices used by ecologists:

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Alpha diversity
Beta diversity
Gamma diversity

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Refers to dliversity within a particular
area, community, or ecosystem, and is measured by
counting the number of taxa within the ecosystem
(Usually species)

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Alpha diversity

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Is species diversity between ecosystems
this involves comparing the number of taxa that are
unique to each of the ecosystems

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Beta diversity

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Is a measurement of the overall
diversity for different ecosystems within a region,

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Gamma diversity

Question 14

Systematists have
developed different approaches to show
relationships among organisms. The most
commonly used is

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Cladistics

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The relationship among organisms are shown in a

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Cladogram

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Cladogram is based on

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Phylogeny

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Phylogeny describes ________

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Evolutionary Relationships

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Cladistics was developed in the
1950s by a scientist named

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Willi Hennig

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One way of classifying organisms that shows
phylogeny is by using the

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Clade

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It is a
group of organisms that includes an ancestor and
all of its descendants

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Clade

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A diagram used to reflect evolutionary
relationships among_ organisms or groups
of organisms

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Phylogenetic tree

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used to see ancestral connections.

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Family trees