Phylogeny & Taxonomy
The Morphological Species Concept is based on...
How the organism looks
Life gets energy from...
Sun & Earth (Thermal Vents)
Natural selection effects...
The individual
The MRCA for two taxa is located on...
The node
Peptidoglycan
Phylogenies represent...
Hypothesized evolutionary relationships
Heritable information is passed on with...
DNA
Natural selection is a mechanism for...
Evolution
The phylogenetic tree with the ... amount of character/locus changes is the most parsimonious.
Least
The first bacterial lineage to develop photosynthesis is...
Cyanobacteria
The two correct taxonomic ranks to describe a species are...
Genus species
Natural selection relies on an increased... based on variation of a trait
Fitness
What can mutations lead to?
Change in Alleles/Natural Selection
The MRCA of a polyphyletic group...
Does not share the derived trait
The obligate intracellular parasites belong to the ... lineage
Chlamydiae
An ancestral trait shared by the outgroup and other taxa can be described as a...
Plesiomorphy
Cell theory states...
Life is made of cells, and come from cells
Darwin Postulates states that natural selection must be... to offspring.
Heritable
The outgroup of a phylogeny will have the ancestral trait also called a...
Plesiomorphy
The lateral gene transfer method of transduction uses...
Bacteriophages (viruses)
Name the 5 characteristics of life
1. Requires energy
2. Cellular
3. Replicates
4. Information
5. Evolves
Evolution is defined as...
A change in allele frequencies of a trait in a population over time
... data indicates different evolutionary relationships on a phylogeny.
Conflicting
The lineage which causes tuberculosis and leprosy is...
Actinobacteria