Taxonomy & Systemics Flashcards
What is the science of classifying organisms?
Taxonomy
What is a taxon?
classification level
Who is the father of taxonomy?
Carolus Linnaeus
When writing in binomial nomenclature, what is always capitalized and what is always lowercase?
Genus is always capitalized
Species is always lowercase
What is the breakdown from broadest to most specific in taxonomy?
Domain->Kingdom->Phylum->Class->Order->Family->Genus->Species
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What are the 3 domains?
Archea
Bacteria
Eukarya
What is the oldest domain that is found in odd places?
Archea
What is the most common domain?
Bacteria
Which domain is divided into Kingdoms?
Eukarya
What are the 3 categories of Domain Archea?
Thermoacidophiles (live in hot acidic enviroments)
Halophiles (Require high salt concentration)
Methanogens (anerobes that produce methane)
What are the 4 Kingdoms of Domain Eukarya?
Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
What is systemics?
The study of the diversity of organisms and their evolutionary relationships
What is Phylogeny?
Ancestral history
What is cladistics?
the analization of primative and derived characteristics that constructs a cladogram
What is a cladogram?
A diagram of relationships among species on shared derived characteristics
