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Bio- Classification
classification flash cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Classification? | grouping objects based on similarities |
| Define Taxonomy | the branch of biology dealing with grouping and naiming organisms |
| Who is Aristotle? | he created the first method of classification |
| What two groups did Aristotle classify organisms in? | Plants and Animals |
| Who is Linnaues? | he grouped organisms based on their physical characteristics and showed relationships of living things in two groups |
| Who is Whittaker? | he grouped all living things into 5 kingdoms |
| What group was split into 2 kingdoms? | Monera |
| Who is Carl Woese? | he grouped all living things into 6 kingdoms |
| What 6 kingdoms did Carl Woese classify organismns? | Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Fungi, Plantae, Protista, Anamalia |
| 7 groups method of classication created by Linnaues? | KPCOFGS |
| What group of KPCOFGS is the most broad? | Kingdom |
| What is species? | unique organism |
| Who was Nomenclature created by? | Linnaues |
| Define binomial nomenclature | 2 naming sytstem |
| How is the 2 naming system written? | Capital first and species second, italics |
| What is Phylogeny? | the evolution of species |
| What is a Cladogram? | a branching tree-like diagram that shows evolutionary relationships |
| What does each branch on a cladogram represent? | formation of a new species |
| The point in a cladogram is split represents what? | common ancestor |