BIOL 1500 Lecture Notes - Macroevolution, Ploidy, Continental Drift

• School: York University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1500
• Professor: Alexander Mills

Document Summary

Organized organisms based on similaries of parents. His goal was to classify diversity and was a typologist. They are hierarchical so they are called ranks. Every species is associated with a name in every rank. 1 ranked classification: 2-part name: genus and species. ** animals and mammals should not be associated with each other. Genus danaus (genus name is in italics and it capitalized) Easten bluebirds with rusty throat and chest. Western bluebird with blue throat and rusty chest. Typological view: originally created in their current forms (immutable, pre-evolution) Name system should reflect close resemblance