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What is systematics? - correct answer ✔✔Study of biological diversity and the evolutionary relationships
among organisms, both extinct and modern



What is Taxonomy? - correct answer ✔✔Science of describing, naming, and classifying living and extinct
organisms and viruses



What are the 8 categories of taxonomic hierarchy (in order from species upward to broader
classifications)? - correct answer ✔✔Species, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom, Domain



Who is the scientist that proposed the current two-part naming system for each species? - correct
answer ✔✔Carolus Linnaeus



What are the two parts of any Latinized binomial name? - correct answer ✔✔Genus species



What is a phylogenetic tree and what is it used for (or what is phylogeny)? - correct answer ✔✔-
evolutionary history of a species or group of species

-To propose a phylogeny, biologists use the tools of systematics



What are the two ways a new species can be formed? - correct answer ✔✔-Anagenesis - single species
evolves into a different species

-Cladogenesis - a species diverges into two or more species



What is Homology? - correct answer ✔✔Similarities among various species that occur because they are
derived from a common ancestor



What does cladistics compare? - correct answer ✔✔Study and classification of species based on
evolutionary relationships

, -considering the various possible pathways of changes and then choosing the tree that requires the least
complex explanation



What is the difference between a primitive character and a derived character? - correct answer ✔✔-
Primitive: Shared by two or more different taxa and inherited from ancestors older than their last
common ancestor

-Derived: Shared by two or more species or taxa and has originated in their most recent common
ancestor



Be able to explain and put in a time frame some of the major episodes in the history of life on earth.
(The clock analogy) - correct answer ✔✔-13.7 bya - Universe began with the Big Bang

-4.6 bya -- Our solar system began

-The Earth is 4.55 billion years old

-4 bya - Earth had cooled enough for outer layers to solidify and oceans to form

-between 4 and 3.5 bya - Life emerged



What organisms, and process they perform, would be responsible for the accumulation of atmospheric
oxygen about 2.8 billion years ago? - correct answer ✔✔Prokaryotes



What are protists? - correct answer ✔✔eukaryotes that are not fungi, animals, or plants,

mostly unicellular, and

ancestral to all other eukaryotes.



Explain the two-stage hypothesis for the origin of Eukaryotic cells, and be able to define endosymbiosis. -
correct answer ✔✔Symbiosis is a more general association between organisms of two or more species

-Endosymbiosis: refers to one species living inside another host species and

is the process by which eukaryotes gained mitochondria and chloroplasts.



Understand how protists can be seen as the link between unicellular and multicellular life. - correct
answer ✔✔-An ancestral colony may have formed when a cell divided and remained attached to
offspring

-Cells in the colony may have become specialized and interdependent

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