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Trichonephila clavipes
What is Genus name + specific epithet = species name?
The definition of phylogenetics
What is the study of evolutionary relationships over time?
A collective term for an organism eating another organism
What is a consumer?
Most uneventful time in Earth's history
What is the boring billion?
The phylum to which you belong!
What is Chordata?
The levels of taxonomic hierarchy from largest to smallest
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
Looking at the tree on the board, this organism is the closest extant relative of C & D
What is A?
Type of organism that consumes dead organisms, like an earthworm for example
What is a decomposer?
Time of extreme glaciation and raining?
What is Snowball Earth?
I go by a few names, like roundworm, but you can call me by my phylum name
What is Nematoda?
The two defining features of a biological species
What is mate and produce fertile, viable offspring?
A drawing of a tree where one animal species is equally related to two others
What is-- check boards!
Ecological interaction in which one organism benefits, and the other is unaffected
What is commensalism?
Element in soil that contributed to the start of the Great Oxidation Event?
What is iron (Fe)?
This phylum's physical structure is supported by spicules
What is Porifera?
The four dominant species concepts
What is the biological, phylogenetic, ecological, and morphological?
A symplesiomorphy between lions and humans
What is-- many answers possible here!
What is a primary consumer?
Microbial mats that first provided oxygen to Earth’s atmosphere billions of years ago
What are stromatolites?
Some think I look like a jelly, but I don't have tentacles. Instead I have 8 comb plates
What is Ctenophora?
The author and year of Systema Naturae, Volume 1
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
The definition of and an example of a synapomorphy among birds
What is a shared trait, derived from an ancestor and -- many examples here?
A group of the same species living within the same ecosystem
What is a population?
The 2nd most recent major extinction event (not including the disaster we’re creating)
What is the Triassic-Jurassic Extinction?
This phylum includes tapeworms and flukes
What is Platyhelminthes?