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BIO 1002 Exam 1 Pomarico LSU Questions and Answers with
Complete Solutions UPDATED!!!
Taxonomy - ANSWER Branch of biology concerned with naming
and classifying the diverse forms of life.
1st type of classification system - ANSWER Plants vs. animals
Binomial Nomenclature - ANSWER -Modern classification
system where organisms are classified into categories that
create an organizational hierarchy.
-Linnaeus in 1700s.
Binomial Nomenclature in order - ANSWER -Domain
-Kingdom
-Phylum/Division
-Class
-Order
-Family
-Genus
-Species
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Systematics - ANSWER The part of biology that uses phylogeny
to categorize the diversity of living organisms
Phylogeny - ANSWER The perceived evolutionary history of an
organism
Phylogenic Trees - ANSWER -Depict evolutionary relationships
-Like a family tree
Node - ANSWER Each branch point in a phylogenic tree that
represents the divergence of species
Clades - ANSWER Groups of species that includes the ancestral
species and all its descendants.
Robert Whittaker - ANSWER Introduced the 5 kingdoms
5 Kingdoms - ANSWER -Monera
-Protista
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-Plantae
-Fungi
-Animilia
Polyphyletic - ANSWER Refers to a grouping which contains
organisms with different immediate ancestors
Monophyletic - ANSWER A single common ancestor origin
What did Monera become? - ANSWER Eubacteria and
Archaebacteria
Phyletic - ANSWER Evolutionary
Carl Woese - ANSWER -Proposed that eubacteria and
archaebacteria are as different from each other as they are
from the eukaryotes and that those differences arose very early
in the process of evolution
-Also proposed an "evolutionary tree" with 3 main branches
BIO 1002 Exam 1 Pomarico LSU Questions and Answers with
Complete Solutions UPDATED!!!
Taxonomy - ANSWER Branch of biology concerned with naming
and classifying the diverse forms of life.
1st type of classification system - ANSWER Plants vs. animals
Binomial Nomenclature - ANSWER -Modern classification
system where organisms are classified into categories that
create an organizational hierarchy.
-Linnaeus in 1700s.
Binomial Nomenclature in order - ANSWER -Domain
-Kingdom
-Phylum/Division
-Class
-Order
-Family
-Genus
-Species
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Systematics - ANSWER The part of biology that uses phylogeny
to categorize the diversity of living organisms
Phylogeny - ANSWER The perceived evolutionary history of an
organism
Phylogenic Trees - ANSWER -Depict evolutionary relationships
-Like a family tree
Node - ANSWER Each branch point in a phylogenic tree that
represents the divergence of species
Clades - ANSWER Groups of species that includes the ancestral
species and all its descendants.
Robert Whittaker - ANSWER Introduced the 5 kingdoms
5 Kingdoms - ANSWER -Monera
-Protista
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-Plantae
-Fungi
-Animilia
Polyphyletic - ANSWER Refers to a grouping which contains
organisms with different immediate ancestors
Monophyletic - ANSWER A single common ancestor origin
What did Monera become? - ANSWER Eubacteria and
Archaebacteria
Phyletic - ANSWER Evolutionary
Carl Woese - ANSWER -Proposed that eubacteria and
archaebacteria are as different from each other as they are
from the eukaryotes and that those differences arose very early
in the process of evolution
-Also proposed an "evolutionary tree" with 3 main branches
