Levels of Taxonomy
The number of taxonomic levels (excluding subspecies)
What is 8?
The domain that includes microscopic, unicellular, prokaryotic organisms that can be found everywhere
What is Bacteria?
The number of parts in binomial nomenclature
What is 2?
The name for when lineages diverge on a phylogenetic tree
What is a branch point?
The only taxonomic level more specific than species
What is subspecies?
The first taxonomic level
What is domain?
The domain that includes microscopic, unicellular, prokaryotic organisms that live in extreme envirnments
What is Archaea?
The language usually used for binomial nomenclature to nsure univeral understanding
What is Latin?
An unresolved pattern of divergence
The phylum all vertebrates fall under
What is chordata?
The second level of taxonomy
What is kingdom?
The domain that includes multicellular or unicellular, eukaryotic organisms that can be found everywhere
What is Eukaryra?
The first part in binomial nomenclature
The last common ancestor between taxa A and F in slide 1
What is species X?
The last taxonomic level where bears and dogs are together (Slide 3)
What is order?
The seventh level of taxonomy
What is genus?
The number of kingdoms
What is 6?
The second part in binomial nomenclature
What is species?
The time ago in years when humans and chimpanzees started to evolve separately. (Slide 2)
What is 5.5-7 million years ago?
The class that includes all birds
What is aves?
The eighth level of taxonomy
What is species?
The only kingdom in the Bacteria domain
What is Eubacteria
The font style used for binomial nomenclature
What is italicized?
What is species X?
Who is Carl Woese?