Evolution 3: slides phylogeny and cladograms

Question 1

The 8 taxa in descending order?

Answer 1

Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

Question 2

Three parts to Binomial Nomenclature?

Answer 2

Common Name, Genus (Uppercase), Species epithet (Descriptive name Lowercase)

Question 3

What is Phylogeny?

Answer 3

The evolutionary history of a species or group of species

Question 4

What is a clade?

Answer 4

A group made up of all the species that are decedents to a common ancestor.

Question 5

What does a Phylogenetic trees show?

Answer 5

The evolutionary relationship between species over time.

Question 6

What does a cladogram show?

Answer 6

ONLY the evolutionary relationship between species

Question 7

How does cladograms and Phylogenetic trees determine which species are more related then others?

Answer 7

Phylogenetic trees look at morphology (body structure, embryo development) & molecular (DNA, RNA, Proteins) similarities. Cladograms just look at shared traits.

Question 8

Difference between derived and ancestral traits?

Answer 8

Derived are gotten from common ancestor/ most recent, while ancestral are from a previous ancestor.

Question 9

How many domains are there? (Names)

Answer 9

Bacteria, Archaea, & Eukaryota

Question 9

What are some defining characteristics of each domain?

Answer 9

B & A are unicellular and cell walls while E have some with those but Nuclear Envelops and membrane bound organelles. Or B & A are prokaryotes while E are eukaryotes.

Question 10

What is kingdom Protist known for?

Answer 10

Species that are difficult to identify due to extreme diversity