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BIOL 1002 / Pomarico / Exam 1 Questions and Answers with
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Organisms are arranged or grouped by the science of.... -
ANSWER taxonomy
Taxonomy - ANSWER the branch of biology concerned with
naming and classifying the diverse forms of life
Binomial Nomenclature - ANSWER modern classification
naming system
Hierarchy - ANSWER smaller groupings
The lowest two categories of the taxonomic hierarchy -
ANSWER genus and species
Make up the scientific name for an organism - ANSWER genus
and species
the genus name is________ - ANSWER capitalized
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the species name is _____ - ANSWER lowercase
the scientific name is usually________ - ANSWER underlined or
italicized
taxonomic categories (big to small) - ANSWER domain
kingdom
phylum/division
class
order
family
genus
species
Systematics - ANSWER the field of biology that uses phylogeny
to categorize the diversity of living organisms
Phylogeny - ANSWER the perceived evolutionary history of an
organism
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Systematists depict evolutionary relationships in
branching______ - ANSWER phylogenic trees
Each branch point in the tree is a ________represents the
divergence of species - ANSWER node
Shared characters are used to construct phylogenic trees and
_____ to show phylogenic relationships - ANSWER clades
Clades - ANSWER are groups of species that includes the
ancestral species and all its descendants
Taxonomy is an_______ - ANSWER inexact process
In 1969 Robert Whittaker proposed a replacement for the
plants vs animals system that had as its largest grouping -
ANSWER 5 kingdoms
The ability to examine the DNA sequences and genes of
different organisms resulted in the kingdom Monera being
BIOL 1002 / Pomarico / Exam 1 Questions and Answers with
Complete Solutions UPDATED!!!
Organisms are arranged or grouped by the science of.... -
ANSWER taxonomy
Taxonomy - ANSWER the branch of biology concerned with
naming and classifying the diverse forms of life
Binomial Nomenclature - ANSWER modern classification
naming system
Hierarchy - ANSWER smaller groupings
The lowest two categories of the taxonomic hierarchy -
ANSWER genus and species
Make up the scientific name for an organism - ANSWER genus
and species
the genus name is________ - ANSWER capitalized
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the species name is _____ - ANSWER lowercase
the scientific name is usually________ - ANSWER underlined or
italicized
taxonomic categories (big to small) - ANSWER domain
kingdom
phylum/division
class
order
family
genus
species
Systematics - ANSWER the field of biology that uses phylogeny
to categorize the diversity of living organisms
Phylogeny - ANSWER the perceived evolutionary history of an
organism
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Systematists depict evolutionary relationships in
branching______ - ANSWER phylogenic trees
Each branch point in the tree is a ________represents the
divergence of species - ANSWER node
Shared characters are used to construct phylogenic trees and
_____ to show phylogenic relationships - ANSWER clades
Clades - ANSWER are groups of species that includes the
ancestral species and all its descendants
Taxonomy is an_______ - ANSWER inexact process
In 1969 Robert Whittaker proposed a replacement for the
plants vs animals system that had as its largest grouping -
ANSWER 5 kingdoms
The ability to examine the DNA sequences and genes of
different organisms resulted in the kingdom Monera being
