The Science of Taxonomy and Systematics

Question 1

Taxonomy

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Describing, naming and classifying organisms

Question 2

King Philip Came Over For Good Spaghetti

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

Question 3

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

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discover, discern, describe, name

Question 4

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

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classify, study, compare, identify

Question 5

document the living world through _____

Answer 5

illustrations

Question 6

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

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organized; accessible

Question 7

Study of nature and origin of natural populations

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Myers

Question 8

Production of cladograms that link taxa through their observed variation

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Wheeler

Question 9

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

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cladograms; tree of life

Question 10

Taxonomy provides _____ or _____ of organisms.

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names; categories

Question 11

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

Question 14

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

Threats due to human-induced environmental change which are:

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Global warming, pollution and extractive industries

Question 21

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

Question 29

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

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Agriculture science

Question 30

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

Question 33

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

Question 35

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

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18th and 19th Century

Question 36

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

Question 38

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