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BLG1502EXAM PACK
2022
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,Learning Unit 1: Phylogeny and Systematics
Textbook pages: 519 – 538
PHYLOGENY: THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF A SPECIES OR GROUP OF SPECIES
SYSTEMATICS: A DISCIPLINE FOCUSED ON CLASSIFYING ORGANISMS AND DETERMINING THEIR EVOLUTIONARY
RELATIONSHIPS.
TAXONOMY: THE SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE OF HOW ORGANISMS ARE NAMED AND CLASSIFIED.
HOMOLOGIES: PHENOTYPIC AND GENETIC SIMILARITIES DUE TO SHARED ANCESTRY.
ANALOGY: THE SIMILARITY FUNCTION AND SUPERFICIAL RESEMBLANCE OF STRUCTURES THAT HAVE DIFFERENT ORIGINS. SIMILAR
STRUCTURES IN COMPLETELY UNRELATED SPECIES DEVELOPED INDEPENDENTLY AS ADAPTATIONS TO A COMMON FUNCTION DUE TO
SIMILAR ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES AND NATURAL SELECTION.
CLADISTICS: AN APPROACH TO SYSTEMATICS IN WHICH COMMON ANCESTRY IS THE PRIMARY CRITERION USED TO CLASSIFY ORGANISMS.
MONOPHYLETIC: A GROUP OF ORGANISMS CONSISTING OF A COMMON ANCESTRAL SPECIES AND ALL OF ITS DESCENDANTS.
PARAPHYLETIC: A GROUP OF ORGANISMS CONSISTING OF A COMMON ANCESTRAL SPECIES AND SOME , BUT NOT ALL, OF ITS
DESCENDANTS.
POLYPHYLETIC: A GROUP OF ORGANISMS CONSISTING OF DISTANTLY RELATED SPECIES BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE THEIR MOST RECENT
COMMON ANCESTOR.
ORTHOLOGOUS GENES: HOMOLOGOUS GENES FOUND IN DIFFERENT GENE POOLS AFTER A SPECIATION EVENT.
PARALOGOUS GENES: RESULT FROM GENE DUPLICATION AND ARE FOUND IN MORE THAN ONE COPY IN THE SAME GENOME .
THESE GENES DIVERGE (MUTATE) FROM ONE ANOTHER WITHIN A SPECIES. THIS GIVES RISE TO A NEW GENE THAT HOLDS A NEW
FUNCTION, ALTHOUGH THIS FUNCTION MAY BE RELATED TO THAT OF THE ANCESTRAL GENE .
A KEY STEP TO RECONSTRUCTING PHYLOGENIES IS TO DISTINGUISH HOMOLOGOUS FEATURES FROM ANALOGOUS
ONES
Describe the binomial nomenclature system.
Binomial nomenclature is the nomenclature (terminology) that biologists use when naming and referring to
organisms, to avoid ambiguity. The organism’s Latin scientific name is used and consists of two parts (a binomial).
The first part is the name of the genus (plural – genera) to which the organism belongs and is always capitalized. The
second part of the name is the specific epithet, which is unique for each species within the genus, and is not
capitalized. The entire binomial is written in italics. Example – Homo sapiens
Explain the hierarchical system of classification.
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, Hierarchical classification is the grouping of species into a hierarchy of increasingly inclusive categories. Species that
appear to be closely related are grouped into the same genus. Related genera are grouped into the same family.
Families are grouped into orders, orders into classes, classes into phyla (singular – phylum), phyla into kingdoms and
kingdoms into domains.
A taxon (plural – taxa) is the named taxonomic unit at any level of the hierarchy. Example – Homo is the taxon at the
genus level in the case of humans.
Taxa broader than the genus are not italicized, only capitalized
List the different hierarchical classification groupings.
Listed from broadest to narrowest:
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Discuss cladistic analysis on which systematics is based.
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