SPEC-Species&taxonomySPEC

• When do two organisms belong to the same species?

  If they are able to produce fertile offspring
• What is the significance of courtship behaviour?

  It is a necessary precursor to successful mating
• What does courtship have a role in?

  Species recognition
• What does a PHYLOGENETIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM attempt to do?

  Arrange species into groups based on their evolutionary origins and relationships
• What does a PHYLOGENIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM use?

  Uses a hierarchy in which smaller groups are placed within larger groups with no overlap between groups

  • each group is called a TAXON
• What is the plural of taxon

  taxa
• what comprises the taxa

  one hierarchy
• what does one hierarchy do?

  comprises the taxa
• What comprises the taxa?

  One hierarchy:

  kingdom

  phylum

  class

  order

  family

  genus and

  species
• How is each species UNIVERSALLY identified?

  By a binomial consisting of the name of its genus and species