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Bio Unit 2, Systematic biology is a quantitative science that compares…
Bio Unit 2
- Viruses, Bacteria, and Archaea
20.1 Viruses, Viroids, and Prions
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19 Taxonomy
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19.1 Systematic Biology
Taxonomy is the branch of biology that identifies, names, and organizes biodiversity into related categories
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Systematic biology is a quantitative science that compares traits of living and fossil organisms to infer relationships over time.
Phylogeny is the evolutionary history of a group. and is often represented as a phylogenetic tree: A diagram indicating lines of descent
In Detail: Each branching point Is a divergence from a common ancestor. Represents an organism that gives rise to two or more new groups.
Cladistics: a method that uses shared, derived traits to develop a hypothesis of evolutionary history
In Detail: This evolutionary history of derived traits is interpreted into a type of phylogeny called a cladogram.
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In Detail: Characters from the fossil record, comparative anatomy and development, and the sequence, structure, and function of RNA and DNA molecules are used to construct a phylogeny.
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