Lab A
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Taxonomy is...
Taxonomy is also called... -
Study of naming and classification
Systematics - Who estabilished principles of taxonomy?
- Carl von Linnaeus
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Who developed binomial nomenclature?
In what book was it published?
In what year? -
Carl von Linnaeus
Systema Naturae
1758 - What is the code of nomenclature?
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1. Genus is a single word beginning with a capital letter.
2. Species is a single or compound word beginning with a small letter
3. Name must be Latin or Latinized and in italics or underlined -
Artificial classification?
Give an example. -
A scheme that is simply practical and bears no necessary relationship with the fundamental laws of nature.
Field guides to birds or plants - Natural classification?
- Reveal evolutionary relationships
- What is an observation?
- Collected using your senses
- Inferences are
- Ideas or conclusions based on what you observe and already know
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Phenogram...
What kind of classification? -
diagrama based on the principle of resemblence of species
Artificial -
Phylogenetic tree...
Also called... -
Family trees drawn for hereditary relationships
Cladogram - Dichotomous key
- Table or diagram where identification proceeds by dividing things into groups of have and have not
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What is the Law of Parsimony?
Who first stated this?
What is this also called? -
When faced wiht a range of explanations, one should choose the explanation that is most simple and which contains the fewest number of assumptions.
William of Ockham
Occam's Razor - Evolution is... or ...
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Descent with modificaiton
Change in characterisitics of an organism over time - Adaptive radiation is...
- the evolution of several diversified forms from a primitive unspecialized ancestor
- What is it called when a species survives for millions of years without change?
- Evolutionary stasis