bio 110 quiz wk2

• WHAT TAXONOMISTS DO?

  Document the living world, Discover, discern, describe, name, classify, study, compare, and identify the world’s living and extinct species and other taxa
• Taxonomy and Systematics as a useful science

  1. FEEDING THE WORLD
  2. DISCOVERING THE DRUGS OF THE FUTURE
  3. IMPROVING HUMAN HEALTH
  4. ENABLING SUSTAINABILITY
  5. THREAT FROM HUMAN-INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE INCLUDING Global warming, Pollution, Extractive industries
• Taxonomy and Systematics support the other field of sciences

  1. ECOLOGY
  2. GENETICS
  3. GEOLOGY
  4. EARTH SCIENCE
  5. OCEANOGRAPHY
  6. CLIMATE SCIENCE
  7. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
  8. MEDICINE
  9. CONSERVATION SCIENCE
• Father of Biology - Aristotle
• Who was known for Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants & Classification of Ivy?

  Theophrastus
• 2 people involved in Ancient Greek in History of Systematics: Theophrastus & Artistotle
• Linnaeus's binomial nomenclature consists of two parts: genus and specific epithet.
• Who was known for Comparative anatomical representation of the skeletons of humans and birds?

  Pierre Belon
• Who was known for his scandalous sexual system of classification?

  Carolus Linnaeus
• Who said that classification is artificial but it is useful?

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• Who believed that species could "improve" or "degenerate"?

  Conte de Buffon
• who believed in the theory of catastrophism?

  georges cuvier
• What are the four embrachements Georges Cuvier thought of?

  1. Vertebrata
  2. Articulata
  3. Mollusca
  4. Radiata
• John Wolfgang von Goethe coined the term "morphology"
• Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire believed that species might transform among these immutable forms 
• The 5 groups Lorenz Oken created based on the perception of sense organs are

  • Dermatozoa (invertebrates) 
  • Glossozaa (fish with tongue)
  • Rhinozoa (reptiles with nose opening) 
  • Otozoa (birds with external ear)
  • Ophthalmozoa (mammals with nose, ear, eyes)
• Lorenz Oken homologized vertebral elements with vertebrate skull
• Who was the vertebrate comparative anatomist that was known for founding the definitions of homology and analogy, and his opposition to the Darwinian evolution?

  Richard Owen
• Who thought of the causative theory of evolution?

  Charles Darwin
• ernst haeckel thought of the Development and progress vs. Creation and species
• Two people involved in Ancient Greek period are Aristotle and Theophrastus