01:119:116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lipid Bilayer, Long-Term Potentiation, Binomial Nomenclature

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Biological Science
• Course: 01:119:116
• Professor: G.Transue

Document Summary

Diversity and systems within the context of evolution. Classification: the way in which we structure and organize the world as a means of understanding the world. Systematics: is known as the scientific study that is dedicated to studying the diversity of organisms and the evolutionary relationships between these organisms, there exist two branches of systematics. Phylogenetics is one the two branches in systematics it accounts for the evolutionary relationships" part of the definition of systematics. Taxonomy is the other of the two branches in systematics it accounts for the diversity/multitude of organisms" that exist in this world, it deals with the description of the organism. Binomial nomenclature: each species has a unique 2 part name genus + specific epithet. Homo sapien taxonomy helps us arrange organisms in increasingly inclusive (more and more species are included) categories depending how you look at it > creating a hierarchy.