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| Any group w/in a taxonomic system |
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| Science of classifying, describing, and naming organisms. |
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| Who was the Greek philosopher that first classified organisms? |
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| How did he group animals? Plants? |
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| Animals based on where they lived (land, water, air) and plants based on their stems |
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| What were some problems with his classification? |
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| Names for each species were common, some organisms couldn't be classified as plant or animals, and some animals couldn't be classified based on where they live (ie. frog in on land but in water as a tadpole.) |
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| What are some problems with using common names for organisms? |
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| Common names vary from place to place. |
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| Who was the Swedish naturalist that developed the classification system we use today? |
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| What are the double names for organisms which are written in Latin called? |
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| What is meant by "heirarchical categories"? |
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| Catagories range from general to extremely specific. |
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| List the hierarchical categories of classification in order. |
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| Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
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| What are the three domains? |
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| archae, bacteria, and eukarya |
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| What are the six kingdoms? |
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| archaebacteria, eubacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, and anamalia |
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| Catagories above the kingdom level |
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| What is a scientific name? |
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| Written in Latin, the genus followed by the species. |
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| What are the rules for correctly writing a scientific name? |
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| Latin, both names are in italics, and the genus is capitalized. |
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| Concerning Eubacteria: prokaryote or eukaryote? cell wall? Multi- or uni- cellular or both? Hetero- or auto- touph or both. Examples. |
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| Prokaryote. Cell wall. Unicellular. Hetero- and Auto- troph. E.Coli, strep throat, etc. |
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| Concerning archaebacteria: prokaryote or eukaryote? Cell wall? Uni- or multi- cellular or both? Hetero- or Auto- troph or both? Examples. |
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| Prokaryote. Cell wall. Unicelluar. Heterotroph and Autotroph. Methanogens in cows. |
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