BIOL 1202 Chapter : Chapter 26 Outline
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If organisms (or any items) are to be grouped then they need a name. Linnaeus in the 1700"s: linnaeus also developed a scheme where organisms are classified or grouped into categories. What does it eat?: using systematic, the more categories two organisms have in common the more closely they are related, the more closely related two organisms are the smaller the differences between them. In 1969 robert whittaker proposed a means for easily determining which of the five kingdoms an organism belonged in based on observably different attributes that defined them. 3: the second problem has yet to be resolved. If you examine the kingdoms within domain eukarya you will see that the protest kingdom is also polyphyletic: this and other issues in taxonomy are in the process of being resolved, linking systematics and phylogeny. 26. 4: each branch point in the tree is a node represents the divergence of species.
