BIOL 1002 : 1002 Exam 1
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Understand the linnaean classification system (domain, kingdom, etc. : the linnaean classification, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, each category including all of the categories beneath it. Know the relationship between phylogeny and systematics: phylogeny evolutionary history, systematics science of reconstructing phylogeny. Identify features that reveal evolutionary relationships: all organisms share certain similarities, biologists look at many kinds of characteristics in the search for informative similarities. It has been estimated that 96% of the chimpanzee genome is identical with that of humans: similarities in actual chromosome structure also can be used to establish relationships between organisms. Be familiar with the numbers used to describe biodiversity in our ecosystem: biodiversity the total number of species in an ecosystem, the number of named species is currently about 1. 5 million. Metabolism: for over an hour: bacteria: some, such as the tetanus bacterium, are anaerobes and live without oxygen, some switch from aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
