Chapter 26

Question 1

Taxonomy

Answer 1

A study used to organize species

Question 2

Systemics

Answer 2

A discipline used to classify species and create phylogenic trees - Look at the fossil records and molecules and genes

Question 3

Binomial

Answer 3

This is a two part name that every species has. First name is the Genus and the second name is the species

Question 4

Order of Hierarchical Categories

Answer 4

Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Question 5

Clade

Answer 5

A clade is a specific group on a phylogenic tree that has an ancestor and all its descendants

Question 6

Monophyletic

Answer 6

A group with an ancestor and all of its descendants

Question 7

Paraphyletic

Answer 7

An ancestor and some but not all of the descendants

Question 8

Polyphyletic

Answer 8

Includes descendants of different ancestors

Question 9

Shared Derived Character

Answer 9

Character that did not originate in the ancestor but now is shared by the descendants

Question 10

Molecular Clock

Answer 10

A way of measuring the absolute time of evolutionary change by looking at genes of different genomes that evolve at the same rate

Question 11

Three Domains

Answer 11

Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya

Archaea and Bacteria are more closely related than Eukarya

Question 12

Kingdoms that have been made obsolete

Answer 12

Monera- made obsolete because it has members fromtwo different domains
Protista- It is polypheletic and contains members closely related to plant, fungi, or animals