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Taxonomy of Microorganisms Flashcards

1
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• science of classifying living organisms
• organizing, classifying and naming living things

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Taxonomy

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Who introduced the formal system?

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Carl von Linné (Carolus Linnaeus, 1701-1778)

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who did the ff:
o laid down the basic rules for classification
o established taxonomic categories (taxa)
o divided living organisms into 2 kingdoms

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Carl von Linné

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What are the 2 kingdoms that Carl von Linné introduced?

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Plantae & Animalia

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5
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• Swiss Botanist
• proposed that bacteria and fungi be placed in the plant kingdom

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Carlo von Nageli (1857)

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• proposed the Kingdom Protista, to include bacteria, protozoa, algae, and fungi

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Ernst Haeckle

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7
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• French Biologist
• introduced prokaryote to distinguish bacteria

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Edouard Chatton (1937)

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• Canadian Bacteriologist
• proposed the Kingdom Prokaryotae

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Robert G.E Murray (1968)

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what are the first 2 kingdoms?

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Plant and Animal

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who introduced the first 2 kingdoms in the year 1700s?

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Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel

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who turned the kingdoms in to 3 in the year 1800s?

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Ernst Haeckel

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What are the 3 kingdoms in the year 1800s?

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plant, animal, and protista

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Who made the kingdoms 5 in the year 1950-1990s?

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Robert Whittaker

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What are the 5 kingdoms in the year 1950-1990s?

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plant, animal, protista, fungi, monera

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what are the known kingdoms at present?

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eubacteria, archaebacteria, protista, animal, plant, fungi

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who are the people that made the present kingdoms?

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Carl Woese and George Fox

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• Orderly arrangement of organisms into hierarchy of taxa

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Classification

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• Discovering and recording the traits of organisms

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Identification

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• Assigning scientific names to various taxonomic categories and individual organisms

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Nomenclature

20
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scheme that represents the natural relatedness between groups of living beings

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Phylogeny

21
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refine the system of taxonomy

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Phylogenic relationships

22
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Enumerate the taxonomic hierarchy IN ORDER

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Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

23
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superkingdom/empire

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Domain

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Constitutes a group of related divisions/phyla

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Kingdom

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Division; made up of related classes

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Phylum

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Consist of similar orders

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Class

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Constitutes a group if similar families

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Order

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Made up of related genus

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Family

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Consists of related species

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Genus

30
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Group of closely related organisms that breed among themselves

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Species

31
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What are the 3 domain system?

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Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya

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What are included in the domain Eukarya?

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fungi, plantae, protists, and animalia

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What are included in the domains bacteria and Archaea?

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prokaryotes

34
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what do you call the RNA found based on the analysis of the sequence of ribonucleotides in a molecule?

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ssu rRna

35
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TRUE OR FALSE: The generic name always precedes the specific epithet.

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TRUE

36
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TRUE OR FALSE: The first letter of generic name is in lowercase while the specific epithet begins with a uppercase letter.

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FALSE: it should be The first letter of generic name is in UPPERCASE while the specific epithet begins with a LOWERCASE letter.

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TRUE OR FALSE: The binomial scientific name should be italicized OR underlined.

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TRUE

38
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TRUE OR FALSE: The generic name can be abbreviated provided that it has already been used previously. Specific epithet is never abbreviated.

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TRUE

39
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TRUE OR FALSE: Nomenclature uses Latin or Greek words. If English or French is used, the ending of the word should be revised to Latin or Greek

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true

40
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TRUE OR FALSE:
spp - single species
sp - more than one species

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FALSE

spp - more than one species
sp - single species

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