Taxonomy and History of Biology Flashcards
What are all the taxons in order?
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, species
What are the Domains?
Eukarya, Bacteria, and Archaea
What are the Kingdoms of Domain Eukarya?
Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, and Protista
What is the Kingdom of Domain Archaea?
Archaeabacteria
What is the Kingdom of Domain Bacteria?
Eubacteria
What are the Phylums of Kingdom Animalia?
Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Echinodermata, and Chordata
What Phylum do humans belong to?
Chordata
What are the four major characteristics of Chordates?
A notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal gill slits (Gills), and a post-anal tail
What scientist wrote “On the Origin of Species” and wrote the theory of Evolution?
Charles Darwin
What scientist is considered the father of taxonomy?
Carl Linnaeus
What two scientists modeled the double helix shape of DNA?
Francis Crick and James Watson
What X-ray crystallographer took an image of a DNA strand which was used to determine it’s shape?
Rosalind Franklin
What Domain, Kingdom, and Phylum do sponges belong to?
Eukarya, Animalia, Porifera respectively
What is the species name of Humans?
Homo sapiens sapiens
What kingdom was split into the two domains Bacteria and Archaea?
Kingdom Monera
What scientist invented the Polio vaccine and declined to patent it so it would be more accessible for people?
Jonas Salk (the best scientist ever!)
Who coined the term cells after looking at them through the recent invention of the microscope?
Robert Hook
What scientist developed a theory based on the properties he observed in all cells? What is the theory called?
Theodor Schwann, Cell theory
What are the three tenets of cell theory?
All living organisms are composed of one or more cells.
The cell is the most basic unit of life.
All cells arise from pre-existing, living cells.
What scientist invented the microscope?
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
