Taxonomy and classification Flashcards

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What are the seven groupings for classification?

A

Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order

Family

Genus

Species

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What are the Difficulties in classifying organisms?

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Living things are on a continuous spectrum

They show different stages of evolution

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Importance of classification?

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Identify species
Predict characteristics
To find evolutionary links

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What are the five kingdoms?

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Animalia

Plantae

Fungi

Prokaryotae

Protoctista

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What are the qualities of the kingdom Prokaryotes?

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Bacteria

Have no nucleus nor any membrane bound organelles

Single loop of DNA

Cell wall

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What are the qualities of the kingdom Protoctista?

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Simple organisms.

Can feed or make their own food.

Single celled or found in chains, balls or sheets.

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What are the qualities of the kingdom fungi?

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Uni or Multicellular

Make spores instead of seeds to reproduce

Cell walls made of chitin.

Can be parasitic.

Can be single celled or form threads called hyphae.

No mechanisms for locomotion

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What are the qualities of the kingdom plantae?

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Multicellular.

Cell organelles

Make their own food through photosynthesis.

Cell walls made of cellulose.

Store food as starch

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What are the qualities of the kingdom animals?

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Multicellular.

No cell walls nor any chloroplasts.

Feed on other organisms.

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What is the binomial system?

A

Every organism has two Latin names – the name of
its genus followed by the name of its species.

The genus has a capital letter and the species a
small letter. The Genus can be shortened e.g.
Calluna vulgaris can be shortened to C. vulgaris

In typed text, the Latin name is written in italics
and in hand written notes, it is underlined.

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What is Natural Classification?

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Based on evolutionary relationships, organisms
placed into smaller and smaller groups
depending on recent common ancestors.

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What is Artificial Classification?

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Based on one or two characteristics-to make
identification easier.

Seabirds, because they all live by the sea

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What are the three domains

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Archaea (Archaea bacteria/ ancient bacteria), Bacteria (Eubacteria. true bacteria) and Eukarya (Protoctista, Plantae, Fungi and animals)

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