Vocabulary
The two-word naming system developed by Carolus Linnaeus.
What is binomial nomenclature?
Gives each species a two-part scientific name.
What is the goal of binomial nomenclature?
After Charles Darwin, classification was based off of this.
What is evolutionary descent?
Evolutionary classification differs from traditional classification by
What is
traditional-physical appearance
Evolutionary-common ancestry/genetics
A group of closely related families.
What is an order?
The science of naming and grouping organisms.
What is systematics?
Organisms that looked similar were not closely related.
What is a problem with traditional classification?
The point at which the branches meet in a cladogram.
What is a common ancestor/node?
What is to show how closely or distantly related organisms are to each other.
A group of closely related classes.
A group of species that includes a single common ancestor and all of its descendants.
What is a clade/monophyletic group?
What is a kingdom?
The further down the cladogram the common ancestor is.
What is the furthest back in time the common ancestor lived?
What is
genus-first, capital
species- second, lower case
all italicized
A group of closely related phyla.
What is a kingdom?
A drawing that shows relationships among species and larger taxa by showing how evolutionary lines branched off a common ancestor.
What is a cladogram?
The word Acer from the scientific name Acer rubrum.
What is the genus?
An example of a derived character.
What is hair, four limbs, claws, genes, etc.....?
Helps us to figure out the species being observed.
What is using a dichotomous key?
A group of closely related orders.
What is a class?
A trait that arose in a common ancestor that is passed to all descendants.
What is a derived character?
The seven levels of classification from largest to smallest.
What is kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
There are animals other than mammals that have four limbs making four limbs not a __________________________ for clade mammalia.
What is a derived character?
Classifying and naming living and extinct organisms through the examination of genes/DNA.
What is phylogenetic systematics?
A group of closely related species.
What is a genus?