Diversity Study Guide
Major Learnings:
1. The structure and function of an object or organism are related.
2. Everything can be classified according to its properties.
Essential and Guiding Questions:
1. By what means are organisms classified?
a. What evidence supports modern phylogenies and taxonomic systems?
b. How do modern classification schemes reflect evolutionary trends?
2. How are organisms related?
a. How are the 3 domains (and current kingdoms) of living things related?
b. What are the trends in plant evolution?
c. What are the trends in animal evolution?
Students should be able to:
1. Use/create a dichotomous key to classify.
2. Use/create phylogenies to classify animals.
3. Interpret phylogenies of kingdoms, plants, animals (invertebrate and vertebrate)
VOCABULARY TERMS
CLASSIFICATION
Archae
Asymmetrical
Bacteria
Bilateral Symmetry
Clade
Cladistics
Cladogram
Derived Characteristic
Domain
Endosymbiotic Theory
Eukaryote
Family
Fungi
Genus
Invertebrates
Kingdom
Morphology
Multicellular
Order
Phylogeny
Phylum
Plant
PLANTS
Angiosperm
Aves
Anthophyta
Blastopore
Autotroph
Blastula
Bryophyta
Cephalization
Cap/Spore
Chilopoda
Coniferophyta
Chondrichthyes
Cotyledon
Chordata
Eudicot
Closed Circulatory System
Fruit
Cnidaria
Gymnosperm
Coelomate
Magnoliid
Complete Digestive System
Monocot
Cranium
Ovule
Crustacea
Petal
Deuterostome
Pistil (stigma, style, ovary)
Diplopoda
Pollen
Echinodermata
Pterophyta
Ectoderm
Seed
Endoderm
Sepal
Endoskeleton
Sori
Exoskeleton
Stamen (anther, filament)
Germ Layers
Vascular Tissue
Hermaphrodite
Prokaryote
Radial Symmetry
Scientific Name
Segmentation
Species
Taxonomy
Thermophiles
Unicellular
Heterotroph
ANIMALS
Incomplete Digestive System
Acoelomate
Insecta
Agnatha
Integument
Amniote
Mammalia
Amphibia
Mesoderm
Amniotic Egg
Mollusca
Annelida
Nematoda
Arachnida
Nerve Cord
Arthropoda
Nerve Ring
Notochord
Open Circulatory System
Osteichthyes
Platyhelminthes
Porifera
Protist
Protostome
Psuedocoelomate
Reptilia
Tetrapod
Urochordata
Vertebral Column
Vertebrates