BIOL 1070 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gastropoda, Paraphyly, Noncoding Dna
17 Jan 2017
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Understand levels of biological organization, and the importance of their variability. Recognize the factors that cause a species" success/peril. As you move up the hierarchy, the categories become more and more general and include more and more lower level categories. Domain (eukarya - nuclei in cells, eukarya - nuclei in cells) Phylum (chordata - animals with notochords, mollusca - mollusks) Order (primates, veneroida - saltwater and freshwater bivalves) Family (hominidae - great apes, dreissenidae - small freshwater mussels) Genus (homo - humans and extinct relatives, dreissena - zebra mussels, quagga mussels) Species (sapiens - humans, polymorpha - zebra mussels) Humans and zebra mussels are part of the same domain and kingdom, but different at the level phylum. Diversity - refer to number of species in a taxonomic group or geographical area. Some taxonomical groups are very diverse (contain a lot of species - the amazon), and others are not (antartica).
