GEOL 1003 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Archaea, Eukaryote, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Fossils: tangible remains or signs of ancient organisms, reveals that life arose and in the time since arising, life has changed dramatically, forms have gone extinct because of sudden environmental changes, new forms have come into existence, provide direct evidence that informs us about ancient life, hard parts (most commonly preserved, soft parts (rarely preserved, cast, mold, per mineralization. Impression: many probably never recorded, rare species, animals without hard parts, often, skeletal material isn"t preserved intact, scavengers damage/ destroy, transport, mm and melt c) much subsurface rock not accessible can"t be studied. Taxonomic groups: study of composition and relationship of groups, domains, archaea (prokaryotes) lack certain internal structures, unicellular, bacteria (prokaryotes, eukarya (eukaryotes) nucleus, 4 groups, protista (mostly unicellular, fungi, plantae, animalia, differentiated on nutrition (1) producers (protists, plants) (2) consumers (fungi, animals, kingdom (broad, phylum (many types, class, order, family, genus, species (few or one organism, demanding king philip came over for good spaghetti.
