BIOL 1202 Chapter : Bio 1202 Notes Ch 25-31
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Chapter 26 phylogeny and the tree of life: phylogeny: the evolutionary history of a species or group of related species, systematics: an analytical approach to understanding the diversity and relationships among organisms. Linnaeus: the binomial name consists of: genus and species, these are always written in a different font, genus is always capitalized, species is always lowercase, ex. Homo sapiens: hierarchical classification: linnaeus also introduced the system for grouping species in increasingly broad categories. Ans: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus. Ans: no, they are similar due to convergent evolution. Concept 26. 3 shared characters are used to construct phylogenetic trees. D&e (traits that are unique, seperated by just one node) Concept 26. 4 an organism"s evolutionary history is documental in its genome: gene duplications & gene families, gene duplication: the production of multiple copies of a gene within the genome. 21. 14, 21. 11b: question: choose the pair of the paralogous genes from the following list.
