Taxonomy Flashcards

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Living things family tree names

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Clade

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Monophyletic clade

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Consists of common ancestor and all descendants.

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Paraphyletic Clade

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Common ancestor but not all descendants

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Polyphyletoc Clade

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Includes distantly related descendants but not their common ancestor

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The 8 Linnaeen classifications (Large to small)

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

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Binomial nomenclature system

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The system of giving living things a scientific name. First half is genus, second half is unique to each species.

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Taxonomic Categories

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Monophyletic, Paraphyletic, Polyphyletic

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How do the 3 Eukarya kingdoms get nutrients?

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Plants: Make sugar from photosynthesis the
Fungi: Takes dissolved nutrients
Anamalia: Eats other organisms

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Phogeny

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The evolutionary history of a species or group of related species

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Taxonomy

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The branch concerned with ordered division and naming of organisms

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Species organized into specific groups due to shared characteristics, these groups are called…

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Taxa

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Any level of the taxanomic unit is called a…

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Taxon

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13
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The two way branch points on a phylogenetic tree

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Dichotomies

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Evolution definition

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The process by which the genetic composition of a population changes over time

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