PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chap 3A Sensation And Perception
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Clickers are required and must be registered by next tuesday. Incomplete outlines of lectures posted to moodle- bring with you to class. Systematics: the science of biological diversity and its evolutionary. Goal: discover all the branches of the phylogenetic tree of life. Tree of life- relationship of all organisms with one ancestral species at base. Taxonomy- branch of biology with the goal of naming and classifying all species. Nepeta floribus interrupte spicatus pedunculatis (meaning nepeta with flowers in an interrupted pedunculate spike ) Linnaeus wrote cataria in the margin of the text. Starting point of nomenclature as it exists today. Allowed for easy identification of plants, by placing every genus into an artificial class and order. Marks the beginning of a great upsurge in the popularity of science, and arguably is amongst the most important publications in biology ever. The two-part scientific name of an organism is formed from the genus and specific epithet.
