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Flashcards by jennabarnes12387, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jennabarnes12387
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| Question | Answer |
| What is taxonomy. | The science of naming and classifying organisms according to similarities |
| How does taxonomy grouping work? | The most similar taxa are grouped into a genus, the most similar genera are grouped into a family and so on to order, phylum, kingdom,and finally domain |
| If you add all subheadings how many groupings are there? | 35 |
| Who came up with the specific naming system? | Carl Vo Linne 1707-1778 |
| Why did he choose Latin names? What else de we know about him? | He chose Latin to not show any favour to any of the popular languages in Europe at the time. He was a Swedish botanist who published two papers on the naming subject. After he changed his name to latin |
| What are the two parts of the species name? What does this mean? | Made up of a genus and an epithet name. This means the species can't be identified with just the last part as it could apply to any number of species in different genera |
| What are the rules when writing a taxonomy name? | Only the first letter of the first word is capitalized. The names should be italicizes or underlined. If it is underlined but words must be underlined separately. |
| How are species named? | Where they are found e.g. Castor canadensis is the Canadian beaver. Also by who discovered it or who was an important contributor. |
| If you see a L. At the end of a species name what does that mean? | It means this species was originally named by Linnaeus in one of his two publications |
| What does (Doe.) at the end Of a species name mean? | This I s an authors name. This means the name of the species has been changed from its original name |
| What if two scientist is want the same exact name for two different species? | The scientist who's publication comes out first gets the name |
| What is systematics? | The study that studies and Trieste establish phylogenies. Works with evolution but is not the same with evolution as the mother concept that systematics is a part of. Systematics is like a destination with many ways to get there. |
| What is phylogeny? | The evolutionary history of organisms. All organisms have ancestors that they share characteristics with and with eachother |
| What is homology? | Similarities do to charged ancestry but that don't necessarily have the same function. |
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