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Unit 9/10 Classification Flashcards

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Taxonomists

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  • Scientists that identify and name organisms
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Benefits of classifying

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  • Accurately/ uniformly name organisms

- Prevents misnomers

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Classifying language

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  • Uses same language: Latin + some Greek for all names

- Latin names understood by all taxonomists

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Aristotle

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  • 1st taxonomist

- Divided organisms into plants + animals, then subdivided by habitat

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Carolus Linnaeus

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  • Father of Taxonomy
  • Classified organisms by their structure
  • Developed the modern naming system: binomial nomenclature
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Binomial Nomenclature

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  • Two word name (Genus, species)

- Capitalize Genus not species

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Standardized naming

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  • Italicized in print

- Underlined when writing

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Taxon (Taxa-plural)

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  • A category into which related organisms are placed

- Hierarchy of groups/ taxa from broadest to most specific

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Hierarchy- Taxonomic Groups

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

Did King Philip come over for great sex?

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Domain definition

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  • The broadest, least specific, most inclusive taxon
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Species definition

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  • Most specific taxon
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3 Domains

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  • Archaea and Eubacteria:
    Unicellular prokaryotes
    (No nucleus/ membrane bound organelles).
  • Eukarya: More complex and have a nucleus + membrane bound organelles
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Eubacteria

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  • Some may cause disease, and are decomposers
  • LIVE ANYWHERE
  • Commercially important in making dairy like cheese
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What Domain’s the first to evolve?

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  • Eubacteria (prokaryotes found in all habitats except harsh ones)
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Archaebacteria

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  • Live in harsh environments

- Vvv hot, acidic, salty places

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Kingdoms in the Domain Eukarya

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  1. Protista
  2. Fungi
  3. Plantae
  4. Animalia
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Protista

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  • Live in moist or wet environments

- Cell walls made of cellulose

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Fungi

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  • Multicellular except yeast
  • Absorptive heterotrophs (digest food outside body then absorb it)
  • Cell walls made of chitin
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Plantae

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  • Multicellular
  • Autotrophic
  • Photosynthesis
  • Cell walls made of cellulose
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-ose

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  • Sugar
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3 Plant Divisions

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  1. Bryophytes
  2. Gymnosperm
  3. Angiosperm
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Bryophytes

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  • Mosses: have no vessels for moving water to the leaves
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Gymnosperm

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  • Conifers + pine trees: cones
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Angiosperm

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  • All flowering plants
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When did Dino’s exist?

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  • Dino’s existed when there were no flowers, only pine trees.
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Classification

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  • Arrangement of organisms into orderly groups based on their similarities
  • Aka taxonomy
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Protista Cell type

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Eukaryote

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Bacteria cell outer boundary

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Cell wall

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Protista cell outer boundary

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Cell membrane or wall

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Bacteria number of cells

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Unicellular (1)

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Protista number of cells

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Both but usually unicellular

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Fungi number of cells

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Both, mostly multicellular

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Bacteria reproduction

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Binary fission

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Protista reproduction

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Mitosis and sexual reproduction

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Fungi reproduction

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Sporulation, sexual, and asexual

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Plant reproduction

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Sexual

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Bacteria getting energy

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Heterotroph and Autotroph

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Protista getting energy

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Heterotroph and Autotroph

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3 examples of Protista

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Paramecium, amoeba, and algae

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Monera

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  • First and least complex kingdom that includes archaebacteria and eubacteria
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Arthropods

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Insects in the animal kingdom that have segmented legs

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Lysogenic cycle

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  • When a virus infects a cell which eventually bursts, releasing newly assembled viruses
43
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What’re the cold and the flu caused by?

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A virus

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What do u not use against a virus?

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  • Don’t use antibiotics, because viruses aren’t living
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What do u use against viruses?

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Vaccines made from destroyed or weakened forms of a virus

46
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Which 2 kingdoms produce sexually?

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Plants and animals

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Where’s the sperm located in plants?

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  • A pollen grain which fertilizes an egg
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Where’s pollen located in a plant?

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  • The tip of the stamen, the male part of the flower
49
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Stamen

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Male part of the flower

50
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Ovules are the same things as

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Eggs

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What 2 things to ferns and mosses need to reproduce?

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  • Ferns and mosses use water to reproduce and sometimes need wind to carry spores
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When does pollination occur?

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  • Pollination occurs when pollen from the anther is deposited on the pistil, which can happen by birds, insects, and wind.
53
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Koch’s Postulates

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The disease must be taken from the infected host and injected into the healthy host and must match the original host culture

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