Taxonomy Flashcards
On a phylogeny tree where are the most older species?
Most ancient ancestor at left
What is a Phylogenetic Trees
Diagrammed as branching “trees”
What is a branch point?
split of lineages into descendants
What is a cladograms?
Phylogenetic Trees
What is used to make the Phylogenetic Trees?
Traits (molecules, anatomy, behavior) used to construct trees
What are used to identify clades?
Use shared, derived traits (differ from ancestral form)
What is everything past the branch is a?
clade
A clade is also a _______
Clade = monophyletic group (all descendants of an ancestor, and no other organisms)
Who began Hierarchical Classification?
Carolus Linnaeus
Each species gets two names, _________________
Genus and species
What type of system is the Hierarchical Classification?
Binomial nomenclature system
The genus is ________ and both the genus and species are both __________
capitalized; italicized
Who made the Biological species concept?
Ernst Mayr
All members of the same _______ can potentially interbreed, producing viable and fertile offspring
species
Species ______________ with members of other species
cannot interbreed
