BIO110: Intro
Cards (40)
- The process of describing, naming, and classifying an organisms in a coherent, hypothesis-based, and regular way, and systematic way
- they discover, discern, describe, name, classify, study, compare, and identify the world’s living and extinct species and other taxa
- document the living world
- use a universal and internationally accepted naming system, governed by a body of agreed rules, to ensure that taxon names are unambiguous and precise
- they make sure that knowledge and understanding of biodiversity is organized and can accessed
- the science of the diversity of organisms
- "the study of the nature and origin of the natural populations of living organisms, both present and past” (Myers, 1952)
- the scientific study of the kinds and diversity of organisms and of any all relationships among them.
- who quote this "the scientific study of the kinds and diversity of organisms and of any all relationships among them."
- organization of natural variation into sets, groups, and hierarchies
- classification and evolution
- conceptual and procedural relationships among and within areas.
- they allow predictions about the properties and traits of organisms
- taxonomy of pests and pathogens and discovering biological control agents
- documenting wild relatives of crop plants and animals to discover genes that may improve yields or resist disease
- exploring the taxonomy of soil and aquatic microbes
- fifty per cent of all pharmaceutical compounds registered for use in the USA are derived from, or were originally discovered in, living organisms.
- ecologists and farmers of the human microbiome, carefully manipulating our internal biodiversity to cure disease and keep us healthy
- organisms that produce medicines, fuels, plastics and other organic chemicals
- by characterizing biodiversity, taxonomists and biosystematists provide the framework and tools by which others can study change and resilience of the Earth system in the face of past, present and future stresses.
- threat from human-induced environmental change includes
- by ensuring that species and other taxa (the subjects of most ecological studies) are scientifically robust, well characterized, and can be accurately identified
- by providing the evolutionary and taxonomic framework that allows an understanding of genetic diversity and evolution
- by characterizing and documenting the fossils that form the basis of much of stratigraphy and, hence, are key to mining and oil and gas exploration
- by enabling documentation of biogeochemical cycles that help stabilize and drive the Earth system
- by discovering and documenting the organisms, many of them microscopic and poorly studied, that underpin and drive ocean productivity
- by enabling past, current and future climate change to be tracked, through an understanding of their effects on species and ecological communities.
- by characterizing pests, diseases, beneficial organisms and the wild relatives of crop plants
- by enabling deeper, more accurate knowledge of the microbiome, i.e. human pathogens and probiotics
- by providing the authoritative species names that underpin conservation planning and legislation.
- refers to the classification of organisms
- a branch of systematics
- involved in the classification and naming of organisms
- does not deal with the evolutionary history of organisms
- can change with further studies
- refers to the study and classification of organisms for the determination of the evolutionary relationship of organisms
- studies the relationship of organisms
- involved in the classification, naming, cladistics, and phylogenetics
- deals with the evolutionary history of organisms
- does not change with further studies