SYSTEMATICS PT. 2

• Description is the assignment of features or attributes to a taxon
• Description Character-features
• Description Tool for communication
• Description categorizing and delimiting the attributes of a taxon
• Taxon is the subjects under the study, any group of organism
• Classification is the arrangement of taxa into some type of order
• Classification is a system for cataloguing and expressing relationship between taxa
• Classification Grouping and Ranking
• Eukarya, Archaea, and Bacteria are the three domains
• what are the three domain

  Eukarya, Archaea and Bacteria
• Animalia, plantae, protists, fungi, and bacteria and archaea belong to Kingdom
• What are the different kinds of Kingdom

  Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protists, Archaea and Bacteria
• Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, Chordata are the different kinds of Phylum
• Phenetics is the classification based on overall similarities
• Phylogenetic is classification based on evolutionary history or pattern of descent
• Nomenclature is the formal naming of taxa according to standard system
• what are the three domain


  Eukarya, Archaea, and Bacteria
• What are the different kinds of Kingdom

  Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protists, Archaea, and Bacteria
• Nomenclature a taxon will only bear one scientific name
• Identification is the method of determining that a specific organism belongs to a recognized taxon
• Identification consist of sequentially choosing among a list of possibilities until the possibilities are narrowed down to one
• Common name does not indicate how organisms are related or classified
• Common name does not indicate how organisms are related or classified
• Common names can be misleading
• Organisms with more than one common name can cause mass confusion
• The vegetative organs of plants are Stem, Leaf, and Root
• The Reproductive organs of plants are Fruit, Flower and Seed
• Terrestrial are growing and rooting in the soil
• Aquatics Growing entirely or partially in water
• Epiphytes grows on other plants without taking nourishment from the host plants
• what are the vegetative organs of plants

  Roots, Stem and Leaves
• what are the Reproductive organs of plants

  Seed, Flower, and Fruit
• Parasites grows on other plants and take nourishment from the host plant
• Habit of Growth characteristic shape, appearance, or growth form of a plant species
• Habit of Growth it develops from specific genetic patterns of growth in combination with environmental factors and is part of the organization of every plant
• Herbs do not develop persistent woody parts
• Trees have a single distinct trunk, woody stem and can reach a height of 5m to 6m or above
• Shrubs are tree-like plants less than 5m tall at maturity
• Undershrub are Small shrubs less than a meter high
• Annuals one growing season