Taxonomy & Systemics

Question 1

What is the science of classifying organisms?

Answer 1

Taxonomy

Question 2

What is a taxon?

Answer 2

classification level

Question 3

Who is the father of taxonomy?

Answer 3

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 4

When writing in binomial nomenclature, what is always capitalized and what is always lowercase?

Answer 4

Genus is always capitalized

Species is always lowercase

Question 5

What is the breakdown from broadest to most specific in taxonomy?

Answer 5

Domain->Kingdom->Phylum->Class->Order->Family->Genus->Species

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Question 6

What are the 3 domains?

Answer 6

Archea
Bacteria
Eukarya

Question 7

What is the oldest domain that is found in odd places?

Answer 7

Archea

Question 8

What is the most common domain?

Answer 8

Bacteria

Question 9

Which domain is divided into Kingdoms?

Answer 9

Eukarya

Question 10

What are the 3 categories of Domain Archea?

Answer 10

Thermoacidophiles (live in hot acidic enviroments)
Halophiles (Require high salt concentration)
Methanogens (anerobes that produce methane)

Question 11

What are the 4 Kingdoms of Domain Eukarya?

Answer 11

Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia

Question 12

What is systemics?

Answer 12

The study of the diversity of organisms and their evolutionary relationships

Question 13

What is Phylogeny?

Answer 13

Ancestral history

Question 14

What is cladistics?

Answer 14

the analization of primative and derived characteristics that constructs a cladogram

Question 15

What is a cladogram?

Answer 15

A diagram of relationships among species on shared derived characteristics