NREM 1014 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heredity, Cephalopod, Endoskeleton
Document Summary
Wrote historia animalium inquiries on animals. First person known to write a book titled natural history. Pliny the elder (ad 23 ad 79) Developed system for naming organisms: binomial nomenclature. Two names for species (genus and species) to give each a unique name. Species are grouped together based on similarities. Each group of organisms is nested with a larger group into a hierarchy. Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. Did not think we evolved from common ancestor. Released book on the origin of species by means of natural selection. Both worked on theory at same time, darwin released his book first. A species is a population or a series of populations of individuals that interbreed with one another and produce viable, fertile offspring. Species are groups of interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups- ernst mayr. Cannot produce a fertile offspring with other distinct populations or species.
