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How do we organize biological diversity?

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Taxonomy

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Taxonomy

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The naming and classifying of organisms.

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Contributions of Carolus Linnaeus

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Taxonomic Levels - a 2-word approach to the naming of an organism (genus, species)

Binomial Nomenclature - Domain, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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3 domains of life that all living organisms are classified under

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Bacteria, arhcaea, and eukarya.

*Archaea and eukarya are more closely related

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Phylogeny

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The hypothetical relational history between a group of organisms and how they are related.

It’s hypothetical because you can never be totally sure.

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Phylogenetic Tree

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A diagram that depicts all phylogenetic relationships.

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Systematics

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The study of organismal relationships and how they are related.

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The Tree of Life vs. the Contemporary Tree of life

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A drawing that shows all of the major groups of organisms or all organisms.

vs.

A hypothesis based on DNA sequence data. It’s MUCH bigger.

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Extant

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The opposite of extinct

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Line of Descent

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A path that connects an organism with it’s ancestors.

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Sister Taxa

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Closest living relative

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Nodes

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The place on a phylogenic tree where a species splits in two.

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*Monophyletic Group

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  • A group of species that includes a common ancestor and all of it’s descendants.
  • Aka clade or lineage
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Paraphyletic Group

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A group that includes an ancestor, but not all of it’s descendants.

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Synapomorphy

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Shared traits that all members of a monophyletic group have.

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Parsimony

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A philosophy that states that the most simple explanation is probably the most likely one.

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Homology

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Features that organisms share because they were inherited from a common ancestor

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Convergent Evolution

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Two organisms develop a similar morphology in order to prosper in a specific environment.

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Morphology

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The study of the forms of things

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20
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Humans test on mice because ______

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Many of our features are homologous

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How are phylogenetic trees typically made?

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  • The idea that the closest relatives should have the most traits in common is kept in mind.
  • Phylogenetic analyses (the construction of these trees) are typically done by computers since they are so complex.
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Homoplasy

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When organisms share trait(s) for reasons other than having a common ancestor.

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*What can phylogenetic trees be used for?

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  • Provide evolutionary hypotheses

- Medicine (ex - determining which strains of a sickness are the most dangerous)

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3 categories of prokaryotic cells

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Cocci - spherical
Bacilli - rod-shaped
Spirilli - spiral-shaped

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Eukaryotes _____, while prokaryotes ____.
Have a nucleus; don't
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Pilli
Responsible for cell attatching
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Differences between bacteria and archaea
- Bacteria have peptidoglycan in their cell walls | - Different molecular structure
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Phylotype
Synonym for species
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Provide the name of a bacteria with a positive effect and explain
Streptomyces - Many antibiotics are derived from this bacteria
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Provide the name of a bacteria with a negative effect and explain
Bacillus anthracis - causes anthrax
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Biofilms
Communities of microbes (can be bacteria or archaea) stacked up together in apartments made of their own secretions.
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The human microbiome
The collection of all of the microbes that live in the human body
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Microbes
Since-celled organisms/prokaryotes
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Significance of prokaryotes
- Bacterial disease. - Move carbon through the biosphere. - Part of the fermentation process that makes beer and wine. - Play a key role in the nitrogen cycle.
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But what about viruses?
- Not considered living organisms - Do not metabolize or grow - Mosaics of nucleic acids - Need to infect a host cell to replicate
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*What supergroup do humans belong to?
Opistokonta
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Tell me about the earlier eukaryotes.
- Theorized to be single-celled with no cell wall. - They probably used a flagellum to swim. - Nucleus, endomembrane system, mitochondria, and cytoskeleton.
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Name two structures that eukaryotes have while prokaryotes don't.
Nucleus and endomembrane system.
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Cytoskeleton
Provides structural support
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Origin of the nuclear envelope theory
- Pieces of the plasma (outer) membrane broke off and formed a bag that protected the nucleus. - So... the nuclear membrane originates from the cell membrane.
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The Endosymbiotic Theory
- Theory that described what we predict to be the origin of the mitochondria/chloroplast. - The cells acquired mitochondria/chloroplast from a free-wandering bacterial source. - Once the cell engulfed the bacterium, it began to live within the cell. Over time, both species evolved to have a symbiotic relationship.
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Protists are __phyletic, which means that ________.
Paraphyletic; there's a common ancestor in one but not all of it's descendants.
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Protists
- A eukaryote that isn't an animal, plant, or fungi. - Live in wet area (ex: aquatic habitats, wet soil, bodies of other organisms) so that they don't dry out and die. - Can be unicellular or multicellular
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A protist's skeleton
-Provides structure and protection. -Take energy from the environment around them. Ex: Glassy cell wall made of silicon dioxide.
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DNA Sequencing
the process of determining the order of nucleotides in DNA
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Cell Membrane
Regulates the movement of substances in and out of a cell
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Cell Wall
Gives plant cells strength and structure
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Gram-positive bacteria/Gram-negative bacteria
thick cell wall and thick peptidoglycan layer of the cell wall/thin for both
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Amoeba + how do they move?
- Large one-celled organisms that are always changing shape - Common pond organism that feeds through phagocytosis - Have food vacuoles and water vacuoles + nuclei - Form pseudopods ("false feet") in order to move
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Ingestive Feeding
Pseudopodia engulf food
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Phagocytosis
Process by which certain living cells called phagocytes ingest or engulf other cells or particles
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Filter Feeding
A type of ingestion in which a filter is used to catch organisms. *Cilia are used in this process
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Absorptive Feeding
Taking in nutrients from the environment directly
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Transverse Fission
A form of binary fission (the primary form of reproduction for asexual organisms)
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Alternation of Generations
- Complex life cycles with different stages. - Different stages have different ploidy levels (haploid/diploid) - We see both sexual and asexual reproduction in these stages.
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2 examples of protists
Euglena - Some are photosynthetic - Single flagellum - Common in freshwater and marine habitats - Common lab examples The potato famine protist
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Mutualism
Both organisms gain a fitness benefit from an interaction with one another
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Bioluminescent
- The production and emission of light by a living organism | - Occurs widely in marine life
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Toxic Protists
- Protists wreak havoc in our beaches. | - When photosynthetic explosions of algae occur, toxins can be spread into food and make us sick.
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Fungi
- Eurkaryotic (have a cell nuclei) - Heterotrophic (derive food from an outside source) - Most art multicellular - Absorb their food
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Saprotrophic Feeding
-Absorb the nutrients from things that are already dead and in the process of decomposition - "digestion before ingestion"

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