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Classification of Organisms
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
09/29/2013

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Term
What is the practice of identifying and naming organisms?
Definition
Taxonomy
Term
What did prehistoric taxonomy use to classify organisms?
Definition
Edibility or danger or curiosity
Term
What did classical taxonomy seek to do?
Definition
Organize the living world in a logical manner
Term
Modern taxonomy employs the use of _______________ to better understand species relationships.
Definition
DNA and RNA
Term
What are universally accepted names for organisms which eliminate confusion?
Definition
Scientific names
Term
Who first notably classified organisms?
Definition
Aristotle
Term
Aristotle's classification system relied upon...
Definition
Soul or life force
Term
Who is the father of taxonomy?
Definition
Carolus Linnaeus or Karl von Linne
Term
What book did Linnaeus write?
Definition
A Systematic View of Nature or Systema Natura
Term
What was Linnaeus's influence on naturalists?
Definition
to get out into the world and classify organisms
Term
What is the body of naming organisms?
Definition
Linnaen Society
Term
Binomial Nomenclature is a naming system using ____ names per organisms classifying life based on ____
Definition
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Taxa
Term
What composes a binomial nomenclature name?
Definition
Genus, Species epithet
Term
Scientific names can be?
Definition
Descriptive, Eponymous, Geographical, Mythological, or completely random
Term
What is an Eponym?
Definition
Species named in honor of someone
Term
What is are categories for organizing organisms?
Definition
Taxa
Term
What are the 3 domains?
Definition
Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
Term
What are ancient bacteria living in extreme environments?
Definition
Archaea
Term
Which organisms give indications of the first life on Earth?
Definition
Archaea
Term
What is a unicellular prokaryote often responsible for diseases?
Definition
bacteria
Term
What are the kingdoms?
Definition
Archaeabacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Plantae, Fungi, Animalia
Term
Why is Protista a catchall kingdom?
Definition
A vast diverse group of organisms are included in it. From kelp to amoebas
Term
What is the phylum of green algae?
Definition
Clorophyta
Term
What is the phylum of red algae?
Definition
Rhodophyta
Term
What is the phylum of brown algae?
Definition
Phaeophyta
Term
What is the phylum of diatoms?
Definition
Bacillariophyta
Term
What is the phylum of a protista that has no cell wall, chloroplasts, and starch, but also captures food.
Definition
Euglenophyta
Term
Why are Euglena thought to be a common ancestor of plants and animals?
Definition
They are mixotrophs
Term
What are bioluminescent fire algae?
Definition
Pyrophyta
Term
What are plant-like protista called?
Definition
algae
Term
What phylum is water mold? What is an example?
Definition
Oomycota, saprolegnia a decomposer
Term
What phylum is slime mold?
Definition
Myxomycota
Term
What phylum includes protista that use pseudopods and flagella?
Definition
Sacromastigophora
Term
What are pseudopod using protista? Example?
Definition
Sarcodina
Term
What sarcodina have limestone shells?
Definition
Foraminiferans
Term
What are protista with flagella? Example?
Definition
Mastigophora
Term
What phylum houses protista that use cilia? Example?
Definition
Ciliophora, Paramecium
Term
What phylum houses plasmodium?
Definition
Apicomplexa
Term
What plant phylum includes true mosses?
Definition
Bryophyta
Term
What plant phylum includes liverworts?
Definition
Hepatophyta
Term
What plant phylum includes lycopodium?
Definition
Lycophyta
Term
What plant phylum includes horsetails?
Definition
Sphenophyta
Term
What plant phylum includes ferns?
Definition
Pterophyta
Term
What plant phylum includes ginkgo trees?
Definition
Ginkgophyta
Term
What plant phylum includes sagopalms?
Definition
Cycadophyta
Term
What plant phylum includes pine, spruce, and other conifers?
Definition
Gymosperms
Term
What plant phylum is flowering plants?
Definition
Angiosperms
Term
What fungi phylum contains bread mold?
Definition
Zygomycota
Term
What fungi phylum contains yeast, morels, truffles, claviceps, and ergot?
Definition
ascomycota
Term
What fungi phylum includes portabella and shittake mushrooms?
Definition
Basidiomycota
Term
What animal phylum includes sponges?
Definition
Porifera
Term
What animal phylum includes Jellyfish, anemone, and coral?
Definition
Cnideria
Term
What animal phylum includes sea walnuts or comb jelly, and often bio-luminescent?
Definition
Ctenophora
Term
What animal phylum includes flat worms and tapeworms?
Definition
Platyhelminthes
Term
What animal phylum includes gastropods (snails or slugs) and bivalves (scallops)?
Definition
Molusca
Term
What phylum contains round worms, pinworms, and hookworms?
Definition
Nematoda
Term
What phylum contains segmented worms earthworms, and leeches
Definition
Annelida
Term
Why is phylum annelida significant in evolution?
Definition
All animals following them are segmented as well
Term
What phylum is joint footed insects, arachnids, crustaceans, millipedes, and centipedes?
Definition
Arthropoda
Term
What phylum contains sea stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, and crinoids?
Definition
Echinodermata
Term
What phylum contains post-anal tails, gill slits and arches, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals?
Definition
Chordata
Term
What is the subphylum of animals with spines?
Definition
Vertebrata
Term
What "superclass" contains jawless fishes such as lampreys?
Definition
Agnatha
Term
What "superclass" contains animals with jaws?
Definition
Gnathostoma
Term
What animal class contains sharks, stingrays, and other cartilaginous fish?
Definition
Chondrichtheyes
Term
What animal class contains eels and bony fish?
Definition
Osteicthyes
Term
What are spiny finned fish called?
Definition
Actinopterygii
Term
What are lobe finned fish that give rise to tetrapods?
Definition
Sarcopterygii
Term
What did Sarcopterygii give rise to? Why?
Definition
Amphibians, their fins show the beginnings or arms
Term
What animal class contains frogs, toads, and salamanders?
Definition
Amphibia
Term
What animal class contains turtles, lizards, iguanas, snakes, and crocodiles?
Definition
Reptilia
Term
What animal class will contain dinosaurs and birds?
Definition
Dinosauria
Term
What animal class presently contains birds?
Definition
Aves
Term
What is a wish bone actually called?
Definition
Furcula
Term
What animal class contains warm blooded, mostly live birthed, and with hair animals?
Definition
Mammalia
Term
What "Infraclass" contains egg laying mammals such as the duck billed platypus?
Definition
Prototherian
Term
What "Infraclass" contains marsupials or pouched animals?
Definition
Metatherian
Term
What infraclass contains placentals with an interface between mother and baby
Definition
Eutherian
Term
What order includes insectivores such as moles and shrews?
Definition
Insectivora
Term
What order includes animals with ever-growing teeth such as rats mice, beavers and squirrels?
Definition
Rhodentia
Term
What order contains animals such as rabbits and pika with short tails and two teeth behind the front teeth?
Definition
Lagomorpha
Term
What order contains meta eaters such as dogs, acts bears, skunks, and racoons?
Definition
Carnivora
Term
What order contains bats?
Definition
Chiroptera
Term
What order contains things like manatees?
Definition
Sirenia
Term
What order contains odd toed grazing mammals such as horses and zebras?
Definition
Perissodactyla
Term
What order contains even toed grazing mammals such as deer, cows, camels, and pigs?
Definition
Artiodactyla
Term
What order contains marine mammals such as dolphins, orcas, narwals, and whales?
Definition
Cetacea
Term
What order contains monkeys, humans, and lemurs?
Definition
Primates
Term
What order contains armadillos and anteaters?
Definition
Xenartha
Term
What infraorder are new world monkeys?
Definition
Platyrhinni
Term
What infraorder is old world monkeys?
Definition
Catanhinni
Term
What family are humans gorillas and chimps?
Definition
Hominidae
Term
What genus is Lucy from?
Definition
Australopitheaus
Term
What Genus are humans?
Definition
Homo
Term
What are three species of Homo?
Definition
Erectus, habalis, sapien
Term
What is the species and subspecies of humans?
Definition
sapien sapien
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