Ch 18.1 Essay

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Ch 18.1 Assessment Questions (pg 515) 1a. Identify two goals of systematic. To assign each species a unique, universally accepted name; to organize living things into groups that have biological meaning 1b. Why do the common names of organisms – like daisy or mountain lion – often cause problems for scientist? (Why does it cause a problem? Why is it a problem?) Common names vary among languages and from place to place 1c. The scientific name of the sugar maple is Acer saccharum. What does each part of the name designate? Acer designates the genus name, and saccharum designates the species. 2a. List the ranks in the Linnaean system of classification, beginning with the smallest Species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom 2b. In which group of organisms are the members more closely associated – all of the organisms in the same kingdom or all of the organisms in the same order? Explain your answers Organisms in the same order because order is a smaller rank and covers fewer species than a kingdom does. 2c. What do scientists mean when they say that species is the only “natural” rank in classification? Species is the only rank not defined by scientists. A species is defined by a natural process – mating to produce fertile offspring. 3. Which category has more biological meaning – all brown birds or all birds descended from a hawk-like ancestor? Why? “All birds descended form a hawk-like ancestor” has more biological meaning because not all brown birds are closely related based on evolutionary
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