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1. What is systematics? Study of biological diversity and the evolutionary relationships
among organ-
isms, both extinct and modern
2. What is Taxonomy? Science of describing, naming, and classifying living and extinct
organisms
and viruses
3. What are the 8 it used for (or what is phylogeny)?
cat- egories of
taxonom- ic 7. What are the two ways a new species can
hierarchy (in or- be formed?
der from species
upward to
broader
classifications)?
4. Who is the scien-
tist that
proposed the
current two-part
naming system
for each species?
5. What are the
two parts of
any
Latinized
binomial name?
6. What is a
phyloge- netic
tree and what is
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Species, Genus, Family, Order,
Class, Phylum, Kingdom, Domain
Carolus Linnaeus
Genus species
-evolutionary history of a species
or group of species
-To propose a phylogeny,
biologists use the tools of
systematics
-Anagenesis - single species
evolves into a ditterent species
-Cladogenesis - a species
diverges into two or more
species
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8. What is Homology? Similarities among various species that occur because they are
derived from
a common ancestor
9. What does oxygen about 2.8 billion years ago?
cladistics
compare?
10. What is the dif-
ference between
a primitive
character and a
derived char-
acter?
11. Be able to
explain and put
in a time frame
some of the
major episodes
in the history of
life on earth.
(The clock
analogy)
12. What organisms,
and process they
perform, would
be responsible
for the
accumulation of
at- mospheric