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Created the modern system of scientific nomenclature featuring binomials
"Two-part names"
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Science of classifying and naming organisms.
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| Unit of classification for genuses. |
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| Members of the same species isolated geographically into smaller groups. |
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| A population in a different geographic range that develops slight variations or gradations in some specific characteristics. |
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| Proposed five kingdom system |
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Monera
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia |
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All prokaryotic organisms
Separated into 3 supergroups by Carl Woese
domain Eukarya
domain Archaea
domain Bacteria
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| Eukaryotic, single-celled or simple, multicellular organisms |
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| Eukaryotic, uni- or multicellular, heterotrophic, food absorbers |
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| Eukaryotic, multi-cellular, autotrophic, photosynthesizers |
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| Eukaryotic, multi-cellular, heterotrophic consumers |
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| 2 species that share a common ancestor and were each other's closest relatives |
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Any organism's unique evolutionary history
Often illustrated as phylogenetic trees. |
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| Willi Henning's proposal that systematics should reflect the known evolutionary history of organisms |
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| An ancestral species and all of its descendents. |
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| Includes species from different evolutionary lines |
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| A common ancestor is included but not all of its descendents. |
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| The comparing of physical appearances of organisms |
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Specie come to resemble each other because they face similar environmental demands.
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Organisms said to resemble eachother but the origin of the resemblance is caused by different ancestory
*Wings of a butterfly vs. wings of a bird* |
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| Features look and function similarly but come from different evolutional origins |
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| Look and function of a feature appear similar and result from the same common ancestry |
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| Shared derived traits that are common to 2 or more taxa |
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| Principle of Maximum Parsimony |
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| Choosing the simplest cladogram, requiring the fewest number of assumptions about evolutionary events. |
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