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What are systematics?
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Interpret - The fossil records, the evolutionary processes, the developmental patterns
Describe and Classify - Biodiversity, species Build and reference collections Track disease and predict disease (forensics) |
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What are at the top of phyolgeny trees?
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Living Organisms
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What is a terminal taxa, a sister group, and a node?
Which can rotate and have no problem? |
Terminal taxa - The tips of the tree which are current living organisms
Sister group - Two brances that share a node of a tree Node - A common ancestor that is no longer living. Sister groups can rotate. |
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Why is the phylogenic tree not considered factual?
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Because it is a hypothesis, that is made based on true relationships among organisms, and based on analysis of observation.
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What is the Binomial two name system?
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A species with has a two part name: The genus, and the descripter
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