Taxonomy Flashcards

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Why plants like water so much

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Osmosis is easier
No gravity
No desiccation (drying out)

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Adaptive evolution

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Looks like pitchfork/ trident

Common ancestor, no extinction, creates variation

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Phletic evolution

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One species diverges into two, but one goes extinct

Ex. Birds and dinosaurs

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Co-evolution

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No common ancestor, dec. variation(between two bc track each other),

Ex. Flowers and bees

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Convergent

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No common ancestors, no extinctions, never actually combine

Converge bc similarities in environ

Ex. Thermal regulation, aqua dynamics, penguins/seals

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Divergent

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Common ancestor, no extinction, split into two

Ex. Crocs and alligators

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Types of domains (and number)

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3- archaea, bacteria, eukarya,

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Which domains prokaryotic?

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*archaea
*bacteria
Eukarya

*=prokaryotic

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Number and names of kingdoms

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6- 
Fungi
Animalia
Plantae
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
Protista
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Domain archae

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Prokaryotic
Thermophiles
Extreme halophiles
Chemosynthetic and heterotrophic

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Domain eubacteria

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Prokaryotic 
Photosynthetic 
Heterotrophic 
"Normal" living conditions 
Often infectious                              Pepidoglycon cell wall
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Domain eukarya

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Eukaryotic cell

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Cladistics

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Method of classification based on establishing phylogenies (I.e. Getting at evolutionary relationships

Comparing shared ancestral and shared derived characters between sets of organisms

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