Chapter 18: Classification and Systematics
Taxonomic Studies
The Major Lines of Evolution
Cladistics
Other types of Classification Systems
Levels of Taxonomic Categories
Cladograms and Taxonomic Categories
Understanding Cladograms
Classification Systems of Fossils
Artificial Systems of Classification
Genera
Species
common ancestor
closely related
closely related species
Binomial system of nomenclature
cladograms
evolutionary patterns #
node
cladogram branch
clade
eudicots
basal angiosperms
angiosperms
several clades
artificial classification systems
several key characters observed
groupings
formed genera
type specimen
single preserved plant
isotypes #
extremely similar plants
sent to many herbia
prevents plant disasters from occuring
kingdom Plantae
grade classification
lipanthes orchid
old classification of protista
opposed to clade
clade of true plants
algae
diversified 400 million years later #