Taxonomy overview Flashcards
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Taxonomy
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- taxonomists give unique names
- some species names can be misleading
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Aristotle (history)
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- 384-322 BCE
- found 1000 species->plantar and Animalia
- plantae = trees, hurts, shrubs
- Animalia = air, ground, water
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John Ray (history)
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- 17th century
- made new system for 19000 species identified
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Carl Linnaeus (history)
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- 18th century
- father of taxonomy
- created binomial nomenclature
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binomial nomenclature (taxonomy overview)
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- 2 part scientific names (characteristics, scientist names, etc)
- genus first and capitalized
- species last and not capitalized
- everything underlined
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hierarchy of groups (taxonomy overview)
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- divided into smaller groups called taxa
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Linnaeus’s 7 level system (taxonomy overview)
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- dumb king Philip came over for gooseberry soup
- domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
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dichotomous key (taxonomy overview)
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- identify living biotic things
- 2 parts, 2 questions for identification
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C.A.J (taxonomy review)
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- Carl Linnaeus
- Aristotle
- John Ray
