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The Science of Taxonomy and Systematics Flashcards

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Taxonomy

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Describing, naming and classifying organisms

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King Philip Came Over For Good Spaghetti

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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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_____, _____, _____, _____, classify, study, compare, identify

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discover, discern, describe, name

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discover, discern, describe, name, _____, _____, _____, _____

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classify, study, compare, identify

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document the living world through _____

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illustrations

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Make sure knowledge and understanding of biodiversity is ______ and ______.

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organized; accessible

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Study of nature and origin of natural populations

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Myers

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Production of cladograms that link taxa through their observed variation

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Wheeler

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Systematics is usually concerned with ______ or the ______, creating links among organisms all over the world.

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cladograms; tree of life

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Taxonomy provides _____ or _____ of organisms.

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names; categories

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Study of the Process of Evolution

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Used to differentiate populations and create changes in characteristics which creates a story about us and the organisms around us

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Cladograms are always used

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Study of phylogeny

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What do Biosystematists do?

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🍃 Study the big picture
🍃 Seek to ensure the classification is founded on evolutionary relationships
🍃 Allow predictions regarding the properties and traits of organisms

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Taxonomy and systematics have a bad reputation for ____. ____ only leads to ____ and ____ to satisfy the needs of companies at the expense of environmental destruction.

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utility; utilitarianism; globalization; commercialization

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Taxonomy of pests and pathogens, Discovers biological control agents, Documents wild relatives of plants and animals which may improve yield or resist disease, Explores soil and aquatic microbes

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Feeding the world

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50% of registered pharmaceutical compounds in USA were discovered in living organisms

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Discovering the drugs of the future

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Ecologists and farmers manipulate internal biodiversity to keep us healthy

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Improving human health

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Improvement of the quality of products (ex. wine, yoghurt)

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Enabling Industrial Innovation

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Characterizing biodiversity, taxonomists and biosystematists to provide the framework and tools to which Earth systems can be more resilient in face of past, present and future stresses

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Enabling sustainabilty

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Threats due to human-induced environmental change which are:

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Global warming, pollution and extractive industries

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Systematics and taxonomy are the initial stages of ______.

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sustainability

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Ensuring species and other taxa are scientifically robust, well-characterized and can be accurately identified

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Ecology

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Providing evolutionary and taxonomic framework which allows an understanding of genetic diversity and evolution

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Genetics

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Characterizing and documenting fossils that form basis of stratigraphy; key to mining, oil and gas exploration

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Geology

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Enabling documentation of biogeochemical cycles that help stability and drive the earth’s systems

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Earth science

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Makes the earth go around; pertains to living, geological and chemical processes on Earth

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Biogeochemical cycles

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Discovering and documenting organisms that underpins and drives ocean productivity

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Oceanography

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Enables tracking of past, current and future climate change to gain a better understanding of its effects on species and ecological communities

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Climate science

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Characterizing pests, diseases, beneficial organisms and wild relatives of crop plants

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Agriculture science

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Enabling deeper more accurate knowledge of microbiome

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Medicine

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Discriminating species, supporting and understanding life histories and managing natural resources and species stocks

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Environmental science

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Providing authoritative names that underpin conservation planning and legislation

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Conservation science

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Charles Darwin’s ____ revolutionized biology and gave rise to the science of taxonomy. It was a pivotal part of the 19th century which helped in the better understanding of evolution and systematics.

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On the Origin of Species

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Botany (study of medicinal herbs) and zoology (study of human anatomy and physiology) became applied sciences

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16th Century

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Separation and identification of botanical and zoological taxonomy. Led to more extensive research

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18th and 19th Century

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19th Century was the introduction of _____. Systematics was _____ and Taxonomy was _____

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theory of evolution; studied in universities; assigned in museums

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Branch of systematics

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Taxonomy

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Studies the relationship of organisms

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Systematics

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Classification of organisms

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Taxonomy

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Study and classification for the determination of the evolutionary relationship

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Systematics

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Classification and naming of organisms

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Taxonomy

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Classification, naming, cladistics and phylogenetics

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Systematics

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Does not deal with evolutionary history

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Taxonomy

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Deals with evolutionary history

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Systematics

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Can change with further studies

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Taxonomy

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Does not change with further studies

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Systematics

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