Understanding Phylogeny and Taxonomy

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Are the scientists that classify organisms

• Ecologists
• Geneticists
• Taxonomists
• Biologists

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What Domain are humans in?

• Prokarya
• Archaea
• Bacteria
• Eukarya

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The Father of Taxonomy

• Carl Linnaeus
• Louis Pasteur
• Gregor Mendel
• Charles Darwin

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Phylogeny is?

• the evolutionary history and relationships among species
• a method of classifying plants
• the study of animal behavior
• the process of fossilization

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What do Phylogenetic Trees Predict?

• evolutionary relationships and common ancestry among species.

• Lifespan of individual species.

• Geographical distribution of species.

• Climate change effects on species.

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Where do you start when reading a phylogenetic tree?

• At the tip of the branches.
• In the middle of the tree.
• At the leaves of the tree.
• At the root of the tree.

Match

Match the following

• Extinction

• Speciation

• Taxonomy

• Homologous Features

Loss of a species

A new species being created

Classifying organism

Features that are shared among organisms

• Loss of a species

• A new species being created

• Classifying organism

• Features that are shared among organisms

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Choose the TRUE statement about the Phylogenetic tree on the previous slide

• Gorillas diverged from Old World Monkeys

• Prosimians are most closely replated to Humans

• Chimpanzees are most closely related to Humans