BioBlues

I just reviewed Biology with my daughter. She was so thrilled, I thought perhaps posting it will be of benefit to....someone.

ANALOGOUS CHARACTER - SIMILAR FEATURES THAT EVOLVED THROUGH CONVERGENT EVOLUTION P 327
BARRIER - SOMETHING THAT KEEDS COMPATIBLE ORGANISMS FROM INTERBREEDING
BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE - LINNAEUS, FAMILY/SPECIES
BIOLOGICAL SPECIES - ACTUAL/POTENTIAL INTERBREEDING POPS WHICH ARE REPRODUCTIVELY ISOLATED-P325
CLADISTICS- TAXONOMY THAT INFERS PHYLOGENY BASED ON SIMILARITIES P 327
CONVERGENT EVOLUTION -ORGS EVOLVE SIMILAR FEATURES INDEPENDENTLY, POSS B/C SIMILAR HABITATS P 327
DERIVED TRAIT - UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS, USED IN CLADISTICS P 327
EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMATICS - SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS (COMPARE TO CLADISTICS) P 330
HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES - STRUCTURES IMPLYING A COMMON ANCESTRY - WINGS/ARMS/FLIPPERS P287
HYBRID - RESULT OF INTERBREEDING BETWEEN SPECIES WHERE BARRIER IS NOT COMPLETE P 325
OUT GROUP - ORG THAT IS DISTANTLY RELATED TO OTHERS BEING STUDIED BY CLADISTICS P 328
PHYLOGENY - EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF A SPECIES P 327
POLYNOMIAL NOMENCLATURE - DESCRIPIVE PHRASES ADDED TO THE GENUS P 320
REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION- BARRIER SEPARATES COMPATBLE SPECIES, KEEPING THEM FROM INTERBREEDING P 325
TAXONOMY - SCIENCE OF NAMING AND CLASSIFYING ORGANISMS P 320


WHAT WAS ARISTOTLE’S CLASSIFICATION ERROR - ASSUMED COMMON FEATURES MEANT COMMON ANCESTRY
WHAT WAS LINNEAUS’S SYSTEM BASED ON - ORGS HAVE DIFF. DEGREES OF SIMILARITY -TIGERS/GORILLAS VS TIGERS/FISH
HOW DID MAYR DEFINE A SPECIES - BIOLOGICAL SPECIES P 325
HOW IS CLADISTICS DONE - SELECT UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS CALLED DERIVED TRAITS P 328
WHATS THE PROB W/USING COMMON TRAITS TO CLASSIFY - CONVERGENT EVOLUTION COULD RESULT IN SAME TRAIT FROM DIFF ORIGINS
WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS WITH POLYNOMIAL NAMES-CHANGEABLE
HOW IS A SCIENTIFIC NAME TYPEWRITTEN - ITALICIZED
WHATS THE PROBLEM WITH CLADISTICS - FOCUSES ON WHETHER A TRAIT EXISTS, BUT NOT ITS VALUE P 329
WHAT IS THE ORDER OF KINGDOM, GENUS, ETC
ARE ESHERICHIA COLI AND ENTAMOEBA COLI RELATED? NO.

GENUS IS THE LATIN WORD FOR ‘GROUP’

I feel as if I might as well be saying "Bueller? Bueller?"