Essential question: How and why do we classify organisms?
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Essential question:
How and why do we classify organisms?
Why Classify?• To study the diversity
of life• Used to name
organisms and group them
Taxonomy = classify organisms and give
them universally accepted name
NamingEarly Attempts:• Used physical description• Ex: “Oak with deeply
divided leaves that have no hairs on their undersides and no teeth around their edges.”
• Common names vary among languagesEx: Mountain Lion or puma
or cougar
Solution:Carolus Linnaeus developed
BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE = two part scientific name.
1. Written in italics with Greek and Latinized words
2. First word Capitalized, second word lower case
3. Genus – 1st word, species – 2nd word
Ex: Scientific Name – Felis concolor Common Name – Mountain Lion
Grizzly BearUrsus arctos
Polar BearUrsus maritimus
Panda BearAiluropoda melanoleuca
Which two bears are more closely related?
Binomial Nomenclature
1. Each organism has 2 scientific names
2. Genus and species3. Always in italics4. Genus – upper case,
species-lower case5. Genus can be
abbreviated. Tyrannosaurus rex = T. rex
Classification• Linnaeus’ hierarchical system:
Kingdom general
PhylumClass
OrderFamily
GenusSpecies
specific(King Philip Came Over For Grape Soda)
Taxons
Linnaeus’s System of Classification“King Philip Came Over For Grape Soda”
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Kingdoms and Domains1st attempts to make the Tree of Life were too
inclusive: plant vs. animal• Modern tree contains the six kingdoms and
their phyla: Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, Fungi,
Plantae, Animalia• Domains – newest, largest inclusive category
developed from comparing r-RNA subunits.Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya
Phylogeny – evolutionary history of an organism (how it changed over time)
Cladogram• shows ancestral
relations between organisms= evolutionary tree of life.
• DNA and RNA, computational phylogenetics are now used
Modern Classification• Just using appearance can be misleading.• New system uses:
1. Fossils
2. Dissections/comparative anatomy
3. Molecular similarities/DNA/enzymes-The more genes that are similar, the more closely related
4. Evolutionary similarities or milestonesEx: amniotic sac, jaws, endothermic
Molecular Clocks
• Used to estimate how long ago two species shared a common ancestor.
• The more dissimilar the genes, the longer ago they shared a common ancestor
How do we diagram these evolutionary relationships???
Using a……..
….Cladogram• Uses derived characteristics, those that appear in
recent parts of a lineage but not in its older members, to construct diagram of evolutionary relationships.
KingdomsEubacteria
Archaebacteria
Protista
Plantae
Fungi
Animalia
DOMAIN EUKARYA
DOMAIN ARCHAEA
DOMAIN BACTERIA
Section 18-3
Figure 18-13 Cladogram of Six Kingdoms and Three Domains
DICHOTOMOUS KEYS
• a tool to determine the identity of ORGANISMS.
• Keys consist of a series of choices that lead the user to the correct name of a given item.
• "Dichotomous" means "divided into two parts". Therefore, dichotomous keys always give two choices in each step.