History
Greek philosopher who grouped plants and animals according to their similarities over 2,000 years ago.
Who was Aristotle?
The science of naming and classifying organisms
What is taxonomy?
Organisms that can make their own food.
What are autotrophs?
The shape of bacteria that is spherical.
What is cocci?
The number of levels in the modern classification system?
What is eight?
System of naming things used by biologists until the mid-1700's that named a particular organism by adding descriptive phrases to the name of the genus, sometimes consisting of 12 or more Latin names.
What is polynomial nomenclature?
Levels of classification of organisms from largest to smallest (most general to most specific)
What is: Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
Name of the three domains.
What is Archea, Eubacteria, and Eukarya?
A virus that embeds itself into the host genome as part of the lysogenic cycle.
What is a prophage?
The language used in classification of organisms.
What is Latin?
Swedish biologist who developed the modern system of classification of organisms.
Who was Carl Linnaeus?
A group of natural populations that are interbreeding or that could interbred, and that are reproductively isolated from other such groups.
What is a biological species?
Kingdom with organisms that are multicellular, have no cell wall, have a nucleus, are mobile, and cannot make their own food.
What is Animalia?
Type of branching diagram used in evolutionary systematics
What is a phylogenetic tree?
The first virus to be declared fully eradicated in the world population.
What is smallpox?
The two-word system for naming organisms developed by Linnaeus.
What is binomial nomenclature?
Kingdom that organized Eubacteria and Archaebacteria together.
What is Monera?
Kingdom of organisms that are multicellular, have a cell wall, and are heterotrophic.
What is Fungi?
Malaria is caused by this type of infection.
What is protista?
Scientific name of the leopard.
What is Panthera pardus?
The correct way to write a scientific name (4 basic rules)
What is: 1. Write genus name first (capitalized) 2. Write species name second (lower case) 3. Name is italicized (if typed) or underlined if handwritten. 4. After the first use of the full scientific name, the genus name can be abbreviated by the first letter followed by the species name; example: Quercus rubra = Q. rubra
A method of analysis that reconstructs phylogenies by inferring relationships based on shared characters. This method can be used to hypothesize the sequence in which different groups of organisms evolved.
What is cladistics?
When comparing organisms by looking at how each is classified, doing this will tell you which ones are more closely related.
What is counting how many levels of classification the organisms share? (The more levels they share, the more closely related they are)
The modern classification system differs from the classical by this method.
What is genetic technologies?
Humans belong to this phylum.
What is Chordata?