BIOL 2070 Lecture 3: Microbio September 29

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Need ways of grouping organisms with different types of features. There are sometimes systems that are artificial vs. phylogenetic. Phylogeny means that we are trying to figure out the evolutionary relationships based on genetics. Artificial: until recently, much classification was based on things like physical characteristics, looking at the ones that caused diseases, the first species named cause human diseases. We have a tough time with bacteria, because with plants and animals we can see if they are able to form reproductively successful offspring. Stuck looking at other features for bacteria. This has been a huge challenge for classifying bacteria. A lot of effort that went into trying to name and categorize bacteria was done with pathogens. Today, we have information that does not support bacterial species as being species: because they are so important and because they have been named for so long, it is actually difficult to change things.

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