What are type specimens? Why are they important?

Q: Could a phylotype be considered an OTU? What about a species?

A: A phylotypic is defined as the biological type used to classify organisms by their phylogenetic that…

Q: Why is it necessary to distinguish homology from analogy to infer phylogeny?

A: Evolution is change in the heritable attributes of organic populaces over progressive ages. These…

Q: How are such characters used to construct a cladogram?

A: A cladogram is a biological diagram that is used to determine the phylogenetic relationship between…

Q: How are scientific names assigned? What is a proper way to write them?

A: Systama naturae is a book which contains information about classifying the organisms based on the…

Q: What assumption is made during the relative dating of fossils?

A: INTRODUCTION Archaeologists, geologists, and other scientists make use of this principle when dating…

Q: Why was boiling in concentrated acid a reasonable way to inferthe presence of biological materials…

A: Sometimes, bodies of biological materials are transformed into rocks after many many years. The…

Q: What is phylogeny?

A: Evolution is the cumulative change in the characteristics of an organism or a population over the…

Q: What are the advantages and drawbacks of using scientific names as compared with common names?

A: The Scientific names for plants are written by using the standard Latin binomial system of…

Q: What is meant by a system of taxonomy that isphylogenetic? Why does such a system changefrequently?

A: The scientific study of characterization, classification, identification, the naming of organisms is…

Q: Why should the specimens be accurately identified/named, labelled, and described?

A: Hi, Thanks For Your Question.  Answer : A laboratory specimen is a biological specimen obtained by…

Q: What is meant by term Allelomorphs?

A: Two British geneticists,  William Bateson, and Edith Rebecca Saunders are credited for discovering…

Q: What are some key criteria from the phylogenetic speciesconcept used to determine whether two…

A: Species concepts are used by taxonomists and evolutionary biologists to define a species as they…

Q: Any of the following scientific names are not written correctly

A: Third option is not written correctly.

Q: What are the rules for writing scientific names

A: -Binomial nomenclature is normally used to name each species of organisms. -The system of binomial…

Q: What is the process of taxonomy classification?

A: Introduction  Taxonomy is the branch of science which deals with the classification of organisms in…

Q: how do scientists organize a cladogram?

A: Cladograms are diagrams that show the relationships between different taxonomic groups known as…

Q: What are sacred grooves? What is their role in conservation?

A: The term biodiversity or biological diversity indicates a variety of organisms present in a…

Q: What is the generic name of Namenda ?

A: Namenda is a medication that is used to treat moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease. It works by…

Q: Why are new names derived from latin?

A: Scientific nomenclature is used for naming an organism. It was given by Carl Linnaeus who is…

Q: Which is more common: anagenesis or cladogenesis ?

A: Evolution is the process by which different species of organisms arise from earlier life forms. It…

Q: Who devised the binomial nomenclature?

A: All living things are classified into several groups based on various factors. This allows us to…

Q: What is the oldest fossils?

A: Ans: Fossils: The remaining of animals, fungi, plants, single cell living organisms or bacteria is…

Q: How does radiometric dating work?

A: A fossil is any protected remaining parts, impression, or hint of any once-living thing from a past…

Q: How did the prints become trace fossils?

A: Step 1 Fossils are remains, tracks, impressions, or traces of organisms that existed in the past.…

Q: What is the importance of the binomial classification system of Linnaeus?

A: Binomial nomenclature as the name suggests is the naming of all the organisms by using a specific…

Q: What is the habit of growth of bougainvillea? Based on the text

A: Plants are the living organisms which synthesize their own food by photosynthesis. In photosynthesis…

Q: What are the pseudoautosomal regions (PARs)?

A: Autosomes contain genes which control all the characters of our body except the sexual characters.…

Q: Why is Charophytes located at the bottom of the Cladogram?​

A: Cladogram It is defined as an evolutionary tree that shows  the ancestral relationships between the…

Q: Who proposed phylogentic system of classification?

A: The evolutionary relationship between organisms based on their genetic similarities is known as…

Q: What are the criteria used in phylogenetic analysis todesignate a new microbial species?

A: Biological diversity is the presence of variability of life on Earth. It measures the genetic…

Q: What is (are) the out group(s) in this cladogram?

A: Cladogram:          A spider web network that cleaves into various groups of animals (phylogeny),…

Q: Under what category Cladonia rangiferina comes?

A: Fungi are eukaryotic organism that includes yeasts, molds and mushrooms. They are placed in kingdom…

Q: What is Gale Datebase useful?

A: According to the question, we have to explain why the gale database is useful. So, let us have a…

Q: Which trait(s) shown on the phylogeny are ancestral for the organisms shown? Select all correct…

A: The trait at the branch point is the ancestral trait shared by the descendant or sister groups.

Q: What is binomial nomenclature and what are its basic rules?

A: Introduction In this question we have to discuss about the binomial nomenclature and it's basic…

Q: Why is the Linnaean taxonomic system useful as a classification system?

A: The taxonomic system of Linnaeus consists of a hierarchy of groups known as taxa (singular, taxon).…

Q: Why was the binomial system of classification developed?

A: In the binomial system of classification organisms classified on the basis of their characteristics.…

Q: What isAutopolyploidy?

A: In polyploidy, the cells of an organism contain more than 2 pairs of homologous chromosomes. It…

Q: What are some characterisitcs that make the domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica) the species "scrofa…

A: Pig is commonly referred to as swine. There are different types of pig species. In general terms,…

Q: Who gave binomial name of classification?

A: Binomial nomenclature basically refer to the process of assigning a name to the specific organism.…

Q: From where carragean jelly like structure obtained?

A: Carrageenan is a natural ingredient which is composed of d-galactose units. It is used to thicken,…

Q: In the species name canis lupis, what level of classification does the first word refer to?

A: The organism is divided into several levels of classification based on their similarities with the…

Q: Why is the second edition of Bergey’s Manual no longer based on phenetic classification?

A: Bergey’s Manual is a descriptive book used for to identify the prokaryotic organisms. It determines…

Q: Now that you know the genus of your unknown, what steps would you follow to determine the species?

A: The study of evolutionary history of a species is called phylogeny. The evolutionary relationships…

Q: What do you notice is generally similar across all the specimens?

A: The specimens showed here are a frog, a dog, a hen, and a pig.

Microbial Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of naming, classifying, and describing organisms. The taxonomy will include all the plants, microorganisms, and animals on this planet. Carl Linnaeus coined the taxonomy term. He is known as the father of taxonomy. Microbial taxonomy is a criterion of grouping microorganisms into groups based on their similarities and past relatedness. Microorganisms belonging to the same group are differentiated from the others via grouping into categories. This differentiation makes the study of microorganisms easy. There are different types of microbial taxonomies like Numerical and Molecular taxonomy. The study of microorganisms is known as microbiology. Microbiology is a broad term that takes into account microbial cultures, taxonomic studies, evolutionary relationships. Microbial interaction and diversity are huge data that needs to be compiled under the subject of microbiology. Microbiology covers various organisms like bacteria, fungi, algae, plants, animals, etc.