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Taxonomy and History of Biology Flashcards

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What are all the taxons in order?

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

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What are the Domains?

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Eukarya, Bacteria, and Archaea

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What are the Kingdoms of Domain Eukarya?

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Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, and Protista

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What is the Kingdom of Domain Archaea?

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Archaeabacteria

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What is the Kingdom of Domain Bacteria?

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Eubacteria

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What are the Phylums of Kingdom Animalia?

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Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Echinodermata, and Chordata

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What Phylum do humans belong to?

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Chordata

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What are the four major characteristics of Chordates?

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A notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal gill slits (Gills), and a post-anal tail

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What scientist wrote “On the Origin of Species” and wrote the theory of Evolution?

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Charles Darwin

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What scientist is considered the father of taxonomy?

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Carl Linnaeus

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What two scientists modeled the double helix shape of DNA?

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Francis Crick and James Watson

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What X-ray crystallographer took an image of a DNA strand which was used to determine it’s shape?

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Rosalind Franklin

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What Domain, Kingdom, and Phylum do sponges belong to?

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Eukarya, Animalia, Porifera respectively

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What is the species name of Humans?

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Homo sapiens sapiens

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What kingdom was split into the two domains Bacteria and Archaea?

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Kingdom Monera

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What scientist invented the Polio vaccine and declined to patent it so it would be more accessible for people?

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Jonas Salk (the best scientist ever!)

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Who coined the term cells after looking at them through the recent invention of the microscope?

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Robert Hook

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What scientist developed a theory based on the properties he observed in all cells? What is the theory called?

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Theodor Schwann, Cell theory

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What are the three tenets of cell theory?

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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.

20
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What scientist invented the microscope?

A

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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