BIOL 1202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Plasmodium, Chemotroph, Motility
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Binomial nomenclature: the two part format of the scientific name of an organism, the binomial name consists of, genus and species, these are always written in a different font (italics, genus is always capitalized; species is always lowercase, ex. Classification: kingdom animalia, phylum chordata, class mammalia, order primates, family hominidae, genus homo, species homo sapiens. Morphological and molecular homologies: phylogenetic history can be inferred from similarities in homologous structures and genes when compared among organisms, generally, similar morphology and similar dna sequences = closely related species, but, beware of analogous structures or molecular sequences (aka, homoplasies, similarity may be due to convergent evolution (analogy), not shared ancestry (homology) ) choose the pair of paralogous genes from the following list. hemoglobin and chimpanzee: human, two alleles of the human, mouse insulin gene and yeast mating type gene, two different rat olfactory receptor genes hemoglobin hemoglobin gene.
