Taxonomy & Diversity of Life
The students should be able to:
- explain how and why organisms are hierarchically classified based on evolutionary relationships
- create a cladogram to differentiate the characteristics of five or more organisms
- analyze a cladogram to determine evolutionary relationships among various organisms
- explain why the classification of an organism may change, for example: using genetic evidence to show common ancestry, technological advances such as improved microscope, molecular analysis (cell wall of bacteria and archaea), discovery of new organisms
- determine if an organism is: prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic, unicellular vs. multi‐cellular, autotrophs vs. heterotrophs
- classify organisms using distinguishing characteristics into the three domains: Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya
- classify organisms using distinguishing characteristics into the six kingdoms: Archaea, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia
Taxonomy Packet
PowerPoints17.1 The Linnaean System of Classifcation PPT
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