BIO 181 Exam 3 NCSU Paciulli SS2, Questions and answers, VERIFIED.

BIO 181 Exam 3 NCSU Paciulli SS2, Questions and answers, VERIFIED. What is phylogeny? - -Evolutionary history of a species or group. What is the life classification scheme based on in the past? - -Ray (defined species) Linnaeus (Father of taxonomy, binomial nomenclature) How do you write the species to which humans belong? - -Homo sapiens (Italicized, first letter capital, second word isn't) What is a taxon? - -Group designated at any level of hierarchy. What is a taxa? - -Ideally, monophyletic (common ancestor (CA) and its descendants). What is the classification scheme? - -Life - Most inclusive Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species - Least inclusive How are systematics used in present day? - -Constructed from data, morphological, molecular, etc. (uses statistics to analyze data, constructs evolutionary trees).