Taxonomy
Estimated number of species living on earth
Between 10 and 30 million species
Number of species that have been named thus far
About 1.7 million species
What is a problem involved with distinguishing species on structure alone
Males and females may have a different form, as can juveniles and adults
Name the three Domains
Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya
branch of biology concerned with identifying, naming, and classifying organisms
Taxonomy
This might vary with different languages and cause confusion when identifying organisms
Common name
What day is it today?
Thursday
What is the fancy name given to the evolutionary history of a group of organisms?
Phylogeny
Cyanobacteria is a part of this domain
Bacteria
The person who developed the binomial system
Carolus Linneaus
These can interbreed and share the same gene pool
Organisms of the same species
What is the largest classification category, which has been added recently to the original seven
Domain
These are found in the earth's crust and help establish the age of a species
Fossils
This is a diagram showing relationships among species based on shared, derived characters; and traces the evolutionary history of the group being studied
Cladogram
In Lilium buibiferum, what name is the genus?
Lilium
What did Dear King Philip come over for?
Good soup!
Without hesitation, name the six kingdoms
Bacteria, Achaea, Protista, Plantae, Animalia, and Fungi
What is the term used for structural, physiological, or behavioral phenotypes that are present in a specific lineage and is not present in the common ancestor for several lineages. They are shown on cladograms.
Derived traits
The Domain Eukarya contains these four Kingdoms...
Protista, Plantae, Animalia, and Fungi
Taxonomy is the science of what?
Classification
Without hesitation, name the 8 levels of classification from broadest to most specific
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Which taxa are larger than genus but smaller than class
Order and family
Name three hybrid animals
Ligers, mules, zebroids, pizzly, wholpin, many others!