ANT415H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carl Linnaeus, Agnatha, Chondrichthyes
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Objectives: understand how we categorize animals scientific classification, recognize that the way we classify animals is not the only way, and it is done differently by peoples, and during the past. Ordering of animals into groups based on their relationships. Kingdom: monera simple single- celled organism, protista complex single-celled organisms, fungi, plantae, animalia. Phylum in animalia there are 30 phyla: e. g. sponges, jellyfish, flatworm, insects, chordates, chordata sub-phyla vertebrata has to have a dorsal nerve chord class, 7 vertebrae classes. + post anal tail: agnath: jawless fish, chondrichthyes: cartilaginous fish (e. g. shark, actinopterygii: ray finned bony fish, amphibia, aves: birds, mammalia reptilia. Order group of related family family group of related genera. Genus a collection of similar species believed to have a common ancestor species a reproductive community of populations that occupies a specific niche e. g. animalia, chordata, mammalia, carnivora, ursidae, ursus, martimus. Binomial nomenclature two-part name: genus (generic) + species (specific)
