BIOL 1202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Convergent Evolution, Protist, Phylogenetics

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Biology 1202 test 2 notes: there are 5 kingdoms in the naming system. Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species: taxon (taxa)- the named taxonomic units at any level in this taxonomic hierarchy, panthera-genus. This refers to one species in the genus panthera. Pardus is the species: linnaeaus asked us to use this hierarchical classification system. These are known as cladograms: node- branch points in a phylogenetic tree where speciation events have occurred, lineage or clade is an entire branch of a phylogenetic tree. Taxonomic groups often reflect these: a paraphyletic group consists of an ancestor and some of its descendants, the fossil record is extremely valuable, and the only option for many extinct species. Similarities among taxa are a result from convergence: the more homologous characteristics shared by two species, the more closely they are related to one another, sequences of dna and rna are used as characteristics.

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