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- studies organisms, including plants, animals and micro-organisms, and classifies them into groups.
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Taxonomists
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- focuses on the features of the species in order to determine which taxonomic group the species belong to
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Classifications
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- focuses on the common ancestor/evolutionary origin of the species to determine which is the most recent common ancestor of the taxonomic group.
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Systematization
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Designed the hierarchical classification system we still use today
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Carolus Linnaeus
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- major groups of organisms
- can be subdivided into superclass, suborder, etc.
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Taxa
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- includes two part scientific name
- system that Carolus Linnaeus developed
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Binomial nomenclature
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- evolutionary history of a species or group of related species
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Phylogeny
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- inferred by identifying organismal features, characters, that vary among species
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Phylogenies
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- phylogenic characters
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M.C.M.B or E. H
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- give valuable information which helps taxonomists to a great extent. (Physical characteristics)
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Morphological Characteristic
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- 2nd characteristics in phylogenies
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Chromosomal characteristics
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- 3rd characteristics of phylogenies
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Molecular characteristics
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- the features that define the relationships that exist between living organisms and their physical environment in a defined space
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Behavioural or ecological characteristics
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- last characteristics of phylogenies
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Homology
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- shared characters that result from common ancenstry
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Homologous characters
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- also called convergent evolution
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Homoplasy
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- are shared characteristics that are not a result of common ancestry
- they are not homologous
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Homoplasies
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- occurs when natural selection produces similar (analogous) adaptations in organisms from different evolutionary lineages
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Convergent evolution
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- homologous structure that is older than the branching of a particular clade
- shared by more than just the taxon trying to be defined
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Shared primitive character
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- a new evolutionary feature, unique to a particular group
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Shared derived character
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- form of the character that was present in the common ancestor of the group
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Ancestral character state
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- variations of the character that arose are called ______.
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Derived character states
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- determined using outgroup comparison
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Polarity
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- closely related, but not part of the group being examined
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Outgroup
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- one that is found in both the study group and out group
Ancestral character
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- groups that are found in the study groups but not in the out groups
Derived character
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- group that share derived characters and form a subset within a larger group
- a unit of common evolutionary descent
Clade
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- derive character that is shared by all the members of the clade
Synamorphy
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- the ancestral character states for a taxon
Plesiomorphic
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- shared ancestral characters
- do not provide useful information for forming a nested series of clades
Symplesiomorphies/cs
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- hierarchy of clades can be shown as a _____ that is based on synapomorphies
Cladogram
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- consists of the ancestors species and all its descendants
Monophylic
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- consists of an ancestral species and some, but not all, of the descendants
Paraphyletic
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- a clade that includes many species that lack a common ancestor
Polyphyletic
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- also called phylogenetic systematics
- taxonomic theory that is based on cladograms
Cladistics
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- based on common descent in the amount of evolutionary change to rank higher taxa
- sometimes this type of classification includes paraphyletic groupings
Evolutionary taxonomy
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- a pair of taxa that are most closely related to each other
Sister groups
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