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Taxonomy

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The science of identifying, naming and classifying species

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Who is often considered the father of taxonomy

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Carl Linnaeus

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Period of Carl Linnaeus’s exsistence

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1707-1778

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Binomial system of nonmecleture

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Genus speceis (italisized)

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Is the genus species name the same in all languages

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Yes

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Advantages of Classification (2)

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Identification becomes easier, allows for prediction of characteristics

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What are the 8 levels of classification

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

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What are the three domains

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Eukaryotes, Bacteria, Archaeans

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What did Linnaeus considered the 3 kingdoms and what did he interpret a domain as

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Modern domains are equivalent to his kingdoms, his three kingdoms were plant, animal, and mineral

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What is the difference between bacteria and archeans

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Bacteria are prokaryotes that live under regular conditions, archaeans are prokaryotes that thrive under extreme conditions

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Do eukaryotes have histones?

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Yes (histones are proteins in cell nucleus)

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Do eukaryotes have introns?

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Most of them do, introns are non-coding part of DNA/RNA

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Ribosome structure of prokaryotes vs eukaryotes

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70S for prokaryotes and 80S for eukaryotes

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What is the cell wall in plants made of

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cellulose

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What is the cell wall of fungi made up of

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Chitin

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Cell membrane structure of eukaryotes

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Straight chain, ester linked lipids with proteins

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What are the six kingdoms

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Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, Protista, Eubacteria, Archaebacteria

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Which kingdoms are prokaryotic and which are eukaryotic

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Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, and Protista are eukaryotic, eubacteria and archebacteria are prokaryotic

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What is special about the animalia kingdom

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Multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophic (absorbing nutrients from environment), Reproduces sexually, sensory organs

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What phylum do humans belong to and what is special about it?

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Chordata, all chordates have a spinal cord (vertebrates)

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What class do humans belong to and what is special about it?

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Mammalia, warm blooded, mammory glands (breast milk), body hair

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What order do humans belong to?

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Primates

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What is special about primates

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Sexually dimorphic (can tell male and female apart), eyes in front of head (3D vision), live on land, have thumbs and fingernails, placentals (babies develop inside mother)

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What family do humans belong to, and what else is part of the family

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Hominidae, Humans and 4 great apes (bonobos, chimpanzees, gorilla, orangutan)

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What is special about the hominides?
Pregnant for 9 months, take care of offspring for a third of their lives, stay as family, generally one baby at a time
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What Genus do humans belong to, and what's special about it
Homo- culture, walk on two feet, bigger brains
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What is the binomial nonmenclature name for humans
Homo Sapians
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What are phylogenetic trees used for
Determining evolutionary relationships, common ancestors and new species
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How old is the Earth?
4.5 billion years old
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What are the 6 pieces of evidence that tells us change has happened?
Fossil evidence, biogeographical evidence, anatomical evidence, embryological evidence, biochemical evidence, evidence of artificial selection
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Paleontology
The study of fossils
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How many fossil species have been found
250000
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What is a general trend between newer fossils and older fossils
Older fossils are deeper in the ground and are generally more simple in structure
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How does radiometric dating work?
It compares the ratio of an unstable isotope (C-14) to the stable form found (C-12), and uses the half life to determine the relative age
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How old is the oldest fossil found by radiometric dating
3.8 billion years old
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Biogeography
The study of the distribution of life
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How does biogeographical evidence demonstrate change
Animals that lived in close proximity in times of pangea now only occupy one continent
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when was pangaea broken up
150 million years ago
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Homologous features
Similar structural elements and ancestral origin, but serve different function
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Analogous structures
Perform different functions but structures are different and don't show common origin (wings in birds vs bats)
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Vestigial structures
Leftover structures that no longer serve a function, may indicate common ancestry
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How does embryological evidence indicate common ancestry
Embryos of different organisms look the same
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Biochemical evidence
Similarities in chromosome structure and DNA sequence may indicate common ancestry
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Transgenic species
Inserting one animal's gene into another animal, due to biochemical similarty
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Artificial selection
When humans decide on favorable characteristics
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Examples of artificial selection
Sea cabbage into present day brussel sprouts and broccoli, domestification of wolves into dogs
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Speciation
The formation of a new species
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Speciation through transformation
One species evolves into a different species, resulting in loss of original species
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Does speciation through transformation increase biodiversity
No
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Does speciation through divergent evolution increase biodiverisy
Yes
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Speciation through divergent evolution
One species evolves into two or more species, original species still exsists
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Cause of divergent evolution
Allopatric speciation
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What is allopatric speciation
WHen a population is seperated by a PHYSICAL barrier, leading the species to develop different traits that suit different environments. Over time, these changes become big enough where they can no longer reproduce with each other
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Theories that describe rate or evolution
gradualism (slowly) and punctuated equilibrium (quickly)
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When was graudualism accepted up until and when was punctuated equilibrium first proposed and by who
Up until 1900s, punctuated equlibrium was proposed by Jay Gould on 1972
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What did Aristotle and the Greek philosophers propose
The idea that living things are more or less related to each other
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Befoer 1700AD, what was the common belief around change in living things
Change didn't happen, everything was fixed since the start of Time
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Maupertius' time
1751
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What did Maupertius propose?
Species multiplied based on recombination of particles from ancestors
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What was Buffon's time?
1760
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What did Buffon propose?
Change occured since the start of time, some species had common ancestors due to similar environments, they underwent modification from the creator
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Hutton time period
1795
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Lamarck's time
1805
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What did Hutton propose
The theory of gradual change, the idea that the Earth is way older than thousands of years, proposed ideas that forces changed Earth's surface
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What did Lamarck propose?
Organisms themselves were responsible for the having desirable characteristics, which were passed onto offspring
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Lyell's time
1830
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What did Lyell propose
Habitats are still changing
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What book did Lyell write
Principles of Geography
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Malthus' time
1832
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What did Malthus predict
Present day human overpopulation problem
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What theory is Charles Darwin renowned for?
Theory of Natural selection
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Darwin- Struggle for Exsistence
Member of same species must compete for necessities
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Darwin- Survival of the Fittest
Some individuals are better suited to the environment than others
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What was Darwin not aware of when it comes to change?
The fact that it was caused by genes
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What is the general purpose of clades and cladistics
To diverge from classifying organisms via morphology
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Claudistics
A system of classifying taxa based on recently evolved characteristics
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Shared differences
Parts of DNA/ amino acid sequence where there's a split in the genetic code, indicating the formation of another evolutionary branch
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What is a monophyletic group also known as
clade
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What is a clade
A group of organisms that share a common ancestor
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What has amino acid analysis helped discover?
That hippos and whales came from a common ancestor
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Where did the evidence that all organisms share a common ancestor come from
amino acid analysis
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Organisms with which features are found in the same clade
homologous
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What are analogous features evidence of
convergent evolution
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Phylogeny
Study of the evolutionary past of a species
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What are the two most studied proteins
hemoglobin and cytochrome (part of mitochondria)
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Which two organelles have their own DNA
mitochondria and chloroplast
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Why is mitochondria DNA used for dating over regular DNA
Mitochondria DNA is strictly maternal
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What is the rate of mutation
One change/substitution per 20 nucleotides every one million years

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