Unit 6: Concept 4 - Phylogeny

Question 1

What is taxonomy?

Answer 1

field of biology that classifies organisms

Question 2

What are the three domains of life?

Answer 2

Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Eukarya

Question 3

What are the domains that are further subdivided into?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is binomial nomenclature?

Answer 4

2-name naming system

Question 5

What is Phylogeny?

Answer 5

evolutionary history of a species

Question 6

What is endosymbiosis?

Answer 6

1 prokaryote ended up inside another and both organisms thrived

Question 7

What is the endosymbiotic theory?

Answer 7

over time, coevolution of 2 prokaryotes led to specification and the first eukaryote

Question 8

What are phylogenetic trees?

Answer 8

diagram used to predict evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms

Question 9

What is maximum parsimony?

Answer 9

the simplest explanation for creating the tree

Question 10

What can we learn from a phylogenetic tree?

Answer 10

which groups are the most/least related and which group diverged first