biodiversity 1.2 and 1.3

Question 1

taxonomy

Answer 1

the science of identifying and classifying all organisms (living and fossil species)

Question 2

who is the father of taxonomy

Answer 2

Carl Linnaeus

Question 3

what system did carl linnaeus create

Answer 3

binomial nomenclature

Question 4

what is a binomial name of an organism composed of

Answer 4

the genus and species

Question 5

name the taxonomic hierarchy

Answer 5

domain
kingdom
phylum
class
order
family
genus
species
(subspecies)

Question 6

what is the trick to memorize taxonomic hierarchy

Answer 6

did king philip come over for good spaghetti sauce?

Question 7

dichotomous keys

Answer 7

a tool which uses a series of paired comparisons to sort organisms into groups and eventually classify them as their own species

Question 8

in dichotomous keys, the user must do what

Answer 8

choose between two defining statements

Question 9

comparisons in a dichotomous key are usually based off

Answer 9

morphology (physical characteristics)

Question 10

what is phylogeny

Answer 10

the study of evolutionary relationships between and among species

Question 11

phylogenetic tree

Answer 11

a diagram which shows evolutionary relationships between and among species

Question 12

what are clades

Answer 12

groups of taxa which contain a single common ancestor and all of its descendants