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5.3 Classification of biodiversity Flashcards

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What is classification?

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The process of grouping living organisms that share similr features

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Why do we classify organisms?

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  • Help identify species
  • Name new species
  • Understand evolutionary relationships
  • Convenience - makes the study of living organisms more manageable
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What are the 8 taxonomic groups?

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* Domain - Archaea, Eubacteria and Eukaryotae
* Kingdom - Plantae, animalia, fungi, protoctista, prokaryotae
* Phylum - All the groups of organisms that have the same body plan e.g. possession of a backbone
* Class - a group of organisms that all possess the same general traits e.g. the same number of legs
* Order - Subdivision of the class using additional information about the organisms
* Family - A group of closely related genera e.g. dog and cat families
* Genus (genera) - A group of closely related species
* Species - the basic unit of classification. All members of a species show some variation but are essentially the same

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What system is used to agree and develop the names of species?

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The binomial system
* Universal among biologists and has been agreed and developed at a series of congresses
* Congresse atteneded by delegates from around the world are helf at regular intervals
* There are separate congresses for animals and for plants and fungi

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What is the Binomail nomenclature?

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A system that uses the genus name and the species name to avoid confusion when naming organisms
* a good example of cooperation and collaboratio between scientists

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What is the Binomail nomenclature?

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A system that uses the genus name and the species name to avoid confusion when naming organisms
* a good example of cooperation and collaboratio between scientists

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What is a genus?

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A group of species that share certain characteristics

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What is a species?

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A group of organisms that can freely interbreed to produce fertile offspring

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Why is a mule infertile?

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A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse - they are infertile due to an uneven chromosome count

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What does the word taxon (taxa) mean?

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Taxon is greek and means a group of something
* Taxa is the plural

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What is the trend going up the hierarchy of taxa?

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  • the taxa include larger and larger numbers of species, which share fewer and fewer features
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What are the 2 main categories of organisms from taditional classification?

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  • Eukaryote and prokaryotes
  • This clasificatio nis now regarded as inappropritate because the prokaryotes have been found to be very diverse
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What are the 3 major categories of organisms now? What are the 3 domains called?

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Domains: Eubacteria, Archae and Eukaryota

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What are the 3 major categories of organisms now? What are the 3 domains called?

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Domains: Eubacteria, Archae and Eukaryota

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What are members of the domains usually referred to as?

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Bacteria, archaens and eukaryotes

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What are members of the domains usually referred to as?

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Bacteria, archaens and eukaryotes

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What are some features of the 3 main domains?

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Where can archaens found?

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In a broad range of habitats including:
* Ocean surface
* Deep ocean sediments
* Oil deposits far below the surface of the Earth
* Water with very high salt concentration
* Temperatures close to boiling

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Why were fungi difficult to classify into plants or animals?

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  • they were originally classified as plants
  • they have a similar root system (hyphae) and cell walls (chitin) instead of cellulose
  • but they rely on other living organisms to feed because they lack chloroplasts
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What is not classified in any of the 3 domains?

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Viruses because they have too few of the characteristics of life to be regarded as living organisms

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What are eukaryotes classified into?

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Kingdoms

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What does each kingdom divide into?

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Phyla, which are divided into classes, then orders, families and genera

The hierarchy of taxa for clasifying eukaryotes is thus kingdom, phylum,

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What does each kingdom divide into?

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Phyla, which are divided into classes, then orders, families and genera

The hierarchy of taxa for clasifying eukaryotes is thus kingdom, phylum,

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What are the 4 kingdoms of eukaryote?

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Plants, animals, fungi and protoctista

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Which one of the 4 kingdoms of eukaryotes is the most controversial?

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Protoctists because they are very diverse and should be divided up int into more kingdoms

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What can classification be? (2)

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Natural or artificial

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What is the classification of a grey wolf?

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What is the classification of a date palm?

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What is artificial classification?

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  • is based on only a few characteristics
  • Does not reflect any evolutionary relationships
  • Provides limited information
  • is stable
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What is natural classification?

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  • Uses many characteristics
  • Reflects evolutionary relationships (all members of a taxon have a common ancestor)
  • Provides a lot of useful information
  • May change with advancing knowledge
  • Identification is easier
  • prediction of the characteristics of species within a group (because all of the members of a group in a natural classification have evolved from a common ancestral species)
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In natural classification, the genus and accompanying higher taxa consist of?

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consists of al lthe spceis that have evolved from one common ancestral species
* All members of a genus or higher taxon should have a common ancestor

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What can we expect from the members of a natural group to have because of common ancestry?

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We can expect the members of a natural group to share many characteristics

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Why can natural classification be problematic?

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It is not always clear which groups of species do share a common ancestor

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How can convergent evolution and adaptive radiation make natural classification problematic?

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Convergetn evolution can make distantly related organisms appear superficially similar and adaptive radiation can make closely related organisms appear different
* thus making identifying common ancestors for natural classification more difficult

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What can happen withen new evidence shows that members of a group do not share a common ancester?

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The group should be split up into two or more taxa

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What can happen withen new evidence shows that species classified in different taca are found to be closely related?

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Two or more taxa are united, or species are moved from one genus to another or between higher taxa

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How has the classification of humans caused more controversy than any other species?

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  • Using standard taxonomic procedures, humans are assigned to the order Primates and the family Hominidae
  • There has been much debate about which, if any, of the great apes to include in this family
  • Originally all the great apes were paced in another family, the Pongidae, but research shows chimpanzees and gorillas as closer to humans than orang-utans in the Pongidae
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What are the advantages of natural classification?

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  • Identification of species
  • Prediction of characteristics of species within a group
  • Studying closely related species (especially for endangered.extinct species)
  • Tracing evolutionary relationships
  • Help conservation of species

Prediction of characteristics because all of the members of a gropup in a natural classification have evolved from a common ancestral spcies, they inherit similar characteristics

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What are the advantages of natural classification?

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  • Identification of species
  • Prediction of characteristics of species within a group
  • Studying closely related species (especially for endangered.extinct species)
  • Tracing evolutionary relationships
  • Help conservation of species

Prediction of characteristics because all of the members of a gropup in a natural classification have evolved from a common ancestral spcies, they inherit similar characteristics

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What is the five-kingdom classification system?

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Prokaryotae
Protoctista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia

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What are the 4 main phyla in plantae?

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  • Bryophyta - mosses, liverworts and hornworts
  • Filicinophyta - ferns
  • Coniferophyta - conifers
  • Angiospermophyta - flowering plants
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What are the external recognition features of the phyla in plantae kingdom?

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43
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What are the external recognition features of bryophytes, filicinophytes, coniferophytes and aniospermophytes.
(Structure, vascularisation, reproduction, other features, examples)

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How can be animalia phyla be differentiated?

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  1. Body symmetry
  2. Nymber of body openings
    -> None (pores)
    -> one
    -> two or more
  3. Body segmentation
  4. Chordata
    -> Whether it had a central bundle of nerves running along the center of the body
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What are the external recognition features of the phyla in animalia kingdom?

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46
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What are the recognition features of Porifera, cnidaria, platyhelminthes, mollusca, annelida, arthropoda?
(Symmetry, body cavity, segmentation, other features, examples)

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47
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What are the external recognition features of the phyla in animalia kingdom?

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What are the 5 largest classes of chordate?

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  • Bony ray-finned fish
  • Amphibians
  • Reptiles
  • Birds
  • Mammals
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What are the recognition features of fish, amphibians, reptile, bird, and mammal?
(Body covering, reproduction, breathing, temperature, other features)

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What are the differences between archaea and bacteria?

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Archaea “ancient bacteria”
* Found in extreme environments (e.g. thermal vents, anaerobic conditions, highly acidic conditions)
* e.g. methanogens in intestine of cattle -release CH4

Bacteria “true bacteria”
* Most bacteria
* e.g. cyanobacteria

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What are the differences between archaea and bacteria?

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Archaea “ancient bacteria”
* Found in extreme environments (e.g. thermal vents, anaerobic conditions, highly acidic conditions)
* e.g. methanogens in intestine of cattle -release CH4

Bacteria “true bacteria”
* Most bacteria
* e.g. cyanobacteria

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The relationship between the 4 types of systems (3-domain, 6-kingdom, traditional 5-kingdom systems)

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