PHYLOGENY SYSTEMATICS HYPOTHESIS CLADISTICS DERIVED CHARACTER CLADOGRAM DICHOTOMOUS KEY
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•PHYLOGENY
•SYSTEMATICS
HYPOTHESIS
•CLADISTICS
•DERIVED
CHARACTER
•CLADOGRAM
•DICHOTOMOUS
KEY
•CLASSIFICATION
•TAXONOMY
•ARISTOTLE
•LINNAEUS
•KINGDOM
•PHYLUM
•CLASS
•ORDER
•FAMILY
•GENUS
•SPECIES
•COMMON NAME
•SCIENTIFIC
NAME
•BINOMIAL
NOMENCLATURE
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• TAXONOMY IS THE SCIENCE OF GROUPING AND NAMING ORGANISMS.
• CLASSIFICATION THE GROUPING OF INFORMATION OR OBJECTS BASED ON SIMILARITIES.
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•WE ONLY KNOW ABOUT A FRACTION OF THE ORGANISMS THAT EXIST OR HAVE EXISTED ON EARTH.
•TAXONOMISTS GIVE A UNIQUE SCIENTIFIC NAME TO EACH SPECIES THEY KNOW ABOUT WHETHER IT’S ALIVE TODAY OR EXTINCT.
• THE SCIENTIFIC NAME COMES FROM ONE OF TWO “DEAD” LANGUAGES – LATIN OR ANCIENT GREEK.
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DEVIL CAT
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GHOST Cat
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MOUNTAIN LION
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SCREAMING CAT
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PUMA
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FLORIDA PANTHER
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COUGAR
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•THERE ARE AT LEAST 50 COMMON NAMES FOR THE ANIMAL SHOWN ON THE PREVIOUS 7 SLIDES.
•COMMON NAMES VARY ACCORDING TO REGION.
•SO YA HAFTA USE A SCIENTIFIC NAME TO BE NERDY AND PRECISE
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•A TWO NAME SYSTEM FOR WRITING SCIENTIFIC NAMES.•THE GENUS NAME IS WRITTEN FIRST (ALWAYS CAPITALIZED). •THE SPECIES NAME IS WRITTEN SECOND (NEVER CAPITALIZED). •BOTH WORDS ARE
ITALICIZED IF TYPED OR UNDERLINED IF HAND WRITTEN.
EXAMPLE: FELIS concolor OR F. concolor
WHICH IS THE GENUS? THE SPECIES?
BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE
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"FORMAL" SCIENTIFIC NAMES SHOULD HAVE A THIRD PART, THE AUTHORITY. THE AUTHORITY IS NOT ITALICIZED OR UNDERLINED.
THE AUTHORITY IS WRITTEN AS AN ABBREVIATION OF THE LAST NAME OF THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR NAMING THE ORGANISM. SINCE CAROLUS LINNAEUS WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO NAME MANY PLANTS, THE L. FOR LINNAEUS IS VERY COMMON IN PLANT SCIENTIFIC NAMES.
AN EXAMPLE IS QUERCUS alba L.
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beaver Castor canadensis
bobcat Lynx rufus
coati (or coatimundi) Nasua narica
coyote Canis latrans
DEER mule (or black-tailed) Odocoileus hemionus
white-tailed (or eastern) O. virginianus
Elk Cervus canadensis FOX gray Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Kit Vulpes macrotis
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DICHOTOMOUS KEYS
A WAY TO LOGICALLY IDENTIFY ORGANISMS BASES ON PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
IT CAN BE VERY EASY AT FIRST BUT IT WILL BECOME VERY HAIRY QUICKLY
YOU NEED BASIC BACKROUND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SPECIFIC ANATOMY AND THE TERMS USED TO DESCRIBE THEM
YOU START WITH 2 CHOICES
PICK THE CHOICE THAT APPLIES AND MOVE TO THE NEXT APPRPPRIATE STEP
SELECT THE CORRECT CHOICE AND CONTINUE DOWN THE LIST UNTIL YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED THE ORGANISM
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PHYLOGENY, THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF AN ORGANISM, IS THE CORNERSTONE OF A BRANCH OF BIOLOGY CALLED SYSTEMATIC TAXONOMY.
SYSTEMATICS, AS SYSTEMATIC TAXONOMY IS COMMONLY CALLED, IS THE STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY.
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A PHYLOGENETIC TREE IS A FAMILY TREE THAT SHOWS A HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS THOUGHT TO EXIST AMONG GROUPS OF ORGANISMS. IT DOES NOT SHOW THE ACTUAL EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF ORGANISMS.
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PHYLOGENETIC TREES ARE USUALLY BASED ON A COMBINATION OF THESE LINES OF EVIDENCE:
FOSSIL RECORD
MORPHOLOGY
EMBRYOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT
CHROMOSOMES AND DNA
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FOSSILS
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MORPHOLOGY
EARLY FEMALE H. SAPIENS
MALE CHIMPSTUPID BLACK CAT PHOTOBOMBING
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HOBBITS
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EMBRYOLOGY
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CLADISTICS - IS A RELATIVELY NEW SYSTEM OF PHYLOGENETICS CLASSIFICATION THAT USES SHARED DERIVED CHARACTERS TO ESTABLISH EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS.
A DERIVED CHARACTER IS A FEATURE THAT APPARENTLY EVOLVED ONLY WITHIN THE GROUP UNDER CONSIDERATION.
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HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES
COME FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR
ARE USED FOR DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS
HAVE THE SAME ANATOMY
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ANALAGOUS STRUCTURES
DO NOT COME FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR OR EVOLUTIONARY LINE
PERFORM THE SAME FUNCTION
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Adaptive Radiation -
modifies
homologous
structures
Modifies homologous structures
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THESE ANIMALS HAVE EVOLVED SIMILAR ADAPTATIONS FOR OBTAINING FOOD BECAUSE THEY OCCUPY SIMILAR
NICHES.
CONVERGENT EVOLUTION
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ANALOGOUS STRUCTURES -
•TRAITS THAT ARE MORPHOLOGICALLY AND FUNCTIONALLY SIMILAR EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO COMMON ANCESTOR.
CONVERGENT EVOLUTION LEADS To
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HOMOLOGOUS HUMERUS: FORELEGS, ARMS, WINGS TIBIA: VESTIGUAL
ANALOGOUS INSECT WINGS VS. BIRD WINGS DIFFERENT ORGANS SERVING THE SAME FUNCTION
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ONTOGENYTHE EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT OF AN ORGANISM
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DNA
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There are three basic assumptions in cladistics:
1.Organisms within a group are descended from a common ancestor.
2.There is a bifurcating pattern of cladogenesis.
3.Change in characteristics occurs in lineages over time.
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A phylogenetic tree based on a cladistic analysis is called a cladogram.
What derived character is shared by all the animals on the cladogram on the next slide?
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The acacia and its ants are an example of coevolution. Eachinfluences the others evolution.
Can you think of any other examples ofcoevolution?
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Punctuated Equilibrium
“instead of a slow, continuous movement, evolution tends to be characterized by long periods of virtual standstill ("equilibrium"), "punctuated" by episodes of very fast development of new forms”
The "punctuated equilibrium" theory of Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould was proposed as a criticism of the traditional Darwinian theory of evolution…what is it called?
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• A key is a device for easily and quickly identifying an unknown organism.
• The dichotomous key is the most widely used type in biological sciences.
• The user is presented with a sequence of choices between two statements, couplets, based on characteristics of the organism. By always making the correct choice, the name of the organism will be revealed.
The Dichotomous Key
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1.
A. one pair of wings
B. Two pairs of wings
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The Three Domains
• Domain Archaea– Includes newly discovered cell types – Contains 1 kingdom – the Archaebacteria
•Domain Bacteria– Includes other members of old kingdom Monera – Has 1 kingdom – the Eubacteria
•Domain Eukarya– Includes all kingdoms composed of organisms made up of eukaryotic cells
– Protista – Fungi – Animalia – Plantae
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The major classification levels,from most general to most specific
(several of these have subdivisions)
A group at any level is a taxon.
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Kingdoms are divided into groups called phyla Phyla are subdivided into classes
Classes are subdivided into orders
Orders are subdivided into families
Families are divided into genera Genera contain closely related species
Species is unique
Categories within Kingdoms
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SOUTHWEST MISSOURI DOG EAGLE
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