BIO153H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Carl Linnaeus, Binomial Nomenclature, Eukaryote
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Naming: humans have knack for naming and ordering things. One of first to try and come up with a way to describe diversity in front of him. Recognized key differences like dolphins are not just fish as they come up over the surface of the water. Used characteristics to start naming and grouping organisms. Feather or fur, walk on 2 legs or 4. Not only does it gives us names, it classifies (classification) based on motion, habitat, and so on Part is which names do these organisms have and. Considered with what organisms are called and why they belong to a certain group: there are rules and regulations how a taxon can be named. Introduction: ancestral and derived characters from the data for trees, a character matrix scores character states, trees are based on character matrices. Character states: presence or absence: outside of the characters, need:
