BIOL-UA 11 Chapter Notes -Archaea, Absolute Time And Space, Horizontal Gene Transfer

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Phylogeny - the evolutionary history of a species or group of species. Systematics - a discipline focused on classifying organisms and determining their evolutionary relationships. Taxonomy - the scientific discipline of naming and classification of organisms. Binomial nomenclature - two-part naming system; genus species. Domain > kingdom > phylum > class > order > family > genus > species. Taxon - a taxonomic unit at any level of the hierarchy; pl. taxa. Phylogenetic tree - a branching diagram showing the evolutionary history of a group of organisms. Over the course of evolution, a species may lose a key feature shared by close relatives; if dna or other new evidence indicates a mistake has occurred, the organism may be reclassified. Linnaean system may distinguish groups, but tells nothing about groups" evolutionary relationships to one another. Phylocode - only names groups that include a common ancestor and all of its descendants.

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