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14 Cards in this Set
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Why Classify Organisms?
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Because there are 10 million described species of organisms. A half million are beatles. Perhaps 10 million are waiting to be described.
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Taxonomy
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The science of naming and classifying organisms.
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The names have...?
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Biological Significance
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Why do we assign scientific names?
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Common names are confusing, think of the mountain lion! Depending on where you are at it might be called something different.
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What do all scientist know the mountain lion as? (hint: its scientific name)
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Felis Concolor
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How are scientific names assigned?
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Each name has two parts.
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What is the first name based off of?
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The first name is the Genus Name. It is always capitalized. The genus name is common to closely related species.
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The second name is based off of...?
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The second is the species name. It is always lower case. It often describes a trait of the organism, or includes the name of a famous person.
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True or False? The combonation of these two names is unique to these to species.
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True
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The idea of giving each organism two names is reffered to as?
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Binomial Nomenclature
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The names are in what language?
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Latin or greek. Or the names can be latinized.
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Why are the names Latin?
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Because Latin was the prodominant and universal language a few centuries ago
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What is Linneaus's system of classification?
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He came up with different levels of classification.
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What is the order of Classification?
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Kingdom
Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species |
