BIO 1406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phylogenetic Tree, Polytomy, Carl Linnaeus
11 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Legless lizards have evolved ______________ in several different groups. ______________ is the evolutionary history of a species or group of related species. For example, a phylogeny shows that legless lizards and snakes evolved from different lineages of legged lizards. The discipline of ______________ classifies organisms and determines their evolutionary relationships figure 26. 2. Taxonomy is the scientific discipline concerned with classifying and naming organisms. In the 18th century, ______________ published a system of taxonomy based on resemblances. Two key features of his system remain useful today: two-part names for species and hierarchical classification. The two-part scientific name of a species is called a ______________ The first part of the name is the ______________ The second part, called the specific epithet, is unique for each species within the genus. The first letter of the genus is capitalized, and the entire species name is italicized. Both parts together name the species (not the specific epithet alone)
